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What a great idea, to feature this fellow's Primitive Technology blog (and his outstanding Youtube channel) here on a high tech news site. Fire making, clay po
by blisterpeanuts 8y ago
What a great idea, to feature this fellow's Primitive Technology blog (and his outstanding Youtube channel) here on a high tech news site.
Fire making, clay pots, mud huts, stone axes, rope, hunting weapons -- these are what kept people alive for eons, and ironically in our modern high tech era, many if not most of these skills are largely forgotten by all but a few remaining primitive tribes and archivists like him.
These videos are worth watching not just to celebrate these high achievements but also to disseminate and preserve the knowledge. Should you find yourself stranded in a forest hundreds of miles from civilization, you may indeed need to build a friction fire, knap a stone knife, weave some cordage, rough up a shelter, and hunt for food.
As a "primitive survival skills" fan (I'm a viewer, not a doer) I have learned so much that I feel a certain confidence that were I to somehow fall off civilization's ship, and be forced to fend for myself, or to help a group of stranded individuals to survive, we would somehow make it.
- mljoe 8y agoI think it is interesting to reflect on the idea that high technology builds on top of primitive technology. Just as he uses past tools to make more complex tools, every human era of technology builds upon the last. You could say primitive stone tools are in the recipe for developing an ICBM or a semiconductor if you go back far enough.
- wool_gather 8y agoBrings to mind the famous bone club -> space station transition from the 2001 film.
- dvtv75 8y agoI think that's actually meant to be an orbital nuclear launcher, making the comparison even more appropriate.