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Past achievements should be considered within their timescale. If I build a water clock now, it would be cool. But Ctesibius building a water clock in 250 BC, n
by 4gotunameagain 5y ago
Past achievements should be considered within their timescale. If I build a water clock now, it would be cool. But Ctesibius building a water clock in 250 BC, now that's fucking impressive.
3D printing a human bust is cool. Sculpting a human bust three thousand years ago? That's incredible.
Will those videos or that dressmaker's dummy have any artistic value in the future ?
Please.
- colechristensen 5y agoA modern day engineer designing and building 3d printers then scanning themselves in to building a physical model of themselves is I think roughly equivalent to a 2000 year old sculptor learning the by then commodity trade of stonecarving. Both skilled artisans doing things which did require a lot of training but also not uncommon in their own age. Let’s not infantilize the past and pretend everything they did was mindblowing.