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What’s most interesting to me is that we have a history of written records, in the 19th century gained audio recordings, and now (with the internet / data stora
by dfee 6y ago
What’s most interesting to me is that we have a history of written records, in the 19th century gained audio recordings, and now (with the internet / data storage) an archive of image and video. There are 3 other sense, though. Would love to see an archive of smell, taste and touch over the ages (even if it’s only moving forward).
- qlk1123 6y agoChemical ones are way more difficult than physical ones, so I guess among the three, the archive of touch will show up earlier than others. Both smell and taste involves complicated bio-chemical process which thus involves hard engineering problems. Similar to this, movie theaters want to provides more detail of the film as a non-replaceable experience to customers. So far what they can do are no more than shaking chairs according to actions scenes.
- ianmcgowan 6y agoI would love to know what food tasted like 100 or 1,000 years ago. It was probably gross and horrible for most of humanity back then, so perhaps narrow the sample to whatever the 1% were eating. Though I probably don't really know what the 1% are eating now, so maybe it's comparing two impossible things..
- Jack000 6y agoAgrarian cultures probably ate a lot healthier than modern people, simply by virtue of not having heavily processed foods. Preindustrial societies also didn't have to deal with heavy metals in seafood or arsenic in rice.
- Jack000 6y agosurprised this is so controversial. Anyone mind explaining why you disagree?
- Baeocystin 6y agoThis is an excellent video on what English peasants ate during Medieval times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVcey0Ng-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVcey0Ng-w The short of it is that they ate much better than most of us would have expected!
- narag 6y agoI remember how much better chicken and eggs tasted fifty years ago. Sometimes I try "eco" or "bio" but no resemblance. In my hometown it's still possible to find people that grows them in their backyard but, apart from that, it's a lost taste.