> Technology doesn’t regress. I hate this assertion, true technology hasn't gone backwards much in the past 200 years, but honestly technology can and often do

> Technology doesn’t regress. I hate this assertion, true technology hasn't gone backwards much in the past 200 years, but honestly technology can and often does regress historically speaking. There have been plenty of times empires have risen and fallen, taking with them much of their knowledge. How much was lost when Rome decayed simply because there wasn't the structure in order to allow technologists to continue creating? Things are bigger and more interconnected this time so it is harder for an isolated event to cause things to fall backwards, but when it does the impact will be much larger.