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Even better, sometimes I wonder if history is not going in circles. Maybe so much fuss is made about True Names because it's echoes of a long dead civilization
by b0rsuk 9y ago
Even better, sometimes I wonder if history is not going in circles. Maybe so much fuss is made about True Names because it's echoes of a long dead civilization which already had computers and search engines ? Atlantis ? Quetzalcoatl ? Meroe ? Hyperborea ? Mu ? Lyonesse ? Dogons ?
- splouk 9y agoWould we not find archaeological evidence of these technologies? Plastic tends to stick around for a long time.
- b0rsuk 9y agoI was only half-serious about it. My hobbies include SF and fantasy. It's an intriguing idea for a setting.
- fao_ 9y agoYou don't have to have computers to have amazing record keeping combined with shitty security. Egypt under the rule of the Romans was run with a ridiculously tight ship because they wanted to extract tax revenue from every single person in the country. Same with China around the same period.