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This is just a no true scotsman fallacy. You have defined away the feeling because you deride all modern technology as derivative, even if in fact it is extreme
by Areading314 7y ago
This is just a no true scotsman fallacy. You have defined away the feeling because you deride all modern technology as derivative, even if in fact it is extremely innovative.
- jodrellblank 7y ago"In 1834, the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system was built." - that is not a derivative of cooling food by putting it on a block of ice brought from Canada. I'm not doing No True Scotsman because that is a true scotsman. Before it you couldn't chill things on demand below what the weather was doing, for any price. After it, you could. A breakthrough from a world where cooling was down to ice and luck, to a world where control of cooling, pumping heat, is a thing. By saying everything is innovative, you're making no distinctions - if everything is, nothing is.
- Areading314 7y agoThat is another widely-held fallacy, that technology moves in sudden leaps and "breakthroughs", when in fact almost all progress in science and technology is painstaking and incremental.