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Not to take the bait & segue too much, but maps have been a core part of navigation for centuries upon centuries, and they generally teach & augment your own ab
by sliverstorm 9y ago
Not to take the bait & segue too much, but maps have been a core part of navigation for centuries upon centuries, and they generally teach & augment your own ability to navigate rather than navigate for you.
No one misses the technical skill to use a sextant, typewriter, or sliderule. Those things are in a sense just drudgery. But if you lose the ability to navigate, compose, or do math in the process, that's a different story.
- euyyn 9y agoHorses have been a core part of warfare for centuries upon centuries. There's probably plenty of useful skills being a mounted soldier taught you that driving a tank doesn't. Those skills, if they're still useful today, are learned another way.
- sliverstorm 9y agoIf horses taught you high level (not horse-specific) military strategy that tanks didn't, then yes there might be an issue at hand.
- euyyn 9y agoThose would be very exceptional horses. And very powerful maps.