Replace “water engineering” and “gold mining” with “oil” and “lithium mining” to see that the world hasn’t changed much in some important ways in 2000 years, no

Replace “water engineering” and “gold mining” with “oil” and “lithium mining” to see that the world hasn’t changed much in some important ways in 2000 years, no matter how thin our phones are or how close to self driving our cars are getting...