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You are looking at this the wrong way. It might have occured much earlier in history, but only after the invention of industrialized book-printing could that kn
by atoav 4y ago
You are looking at this the wrong way. It might have occured much earlier in history, but only after the invention of industrialized book-printing could that knowledge be actually be transfered between different geographies and generations in an efficient way.
Book-printing presses have been one of the most influential inventions ever for precisely that reason.
- chii 4y agoAnd for precisely the same reason, the internet is now the most influential invention today. The fact that knowledge is available at a click of your finger tips is astounding. After all, the only thing differentiating humans from animals is the way humans can encode and transmit knowledge beyond their own life times. I would imagine the next biggest influential invention is AGI.
- harvey9 4y agoYou miss my point. If human society had developed earlier then we would have had the book printing earlier too.