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I still think of early human progress as this slow march forward rather than what I expect it really was - thousands of years of rediscovery and reinvention by
by oliverbennett 3y ago
I still think of early human progress as this slow march forward rather than what I expect it really was - thousands of years of rediscovery and reinvention by a few million people spread far and wide. Who knows how many groups of people, and their knowledge, were wiped out through bad luck, bad judgement, or worse.
- renjimen 3y agoThe Tazmanians are a perfect example of this. They were separated from mainland Australia around 10,000 years ago by rising sea level. In that time they regressed technologically to the point where they had only 24 distinct tools compared with the several hundred available to the mainlanders.
- dilyevsky 3y agoReminds of this awesome talk about technology collapse, has some petty cool historical examples too - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko