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> we don’t know about the process used to create the technologies that underpin our civilization. It's been like that for a while. That's why we need everyone
by hnfong 4y ago
> we don’t know about the process used to create the technologies that underpin our civilization.
It's been like that for a while. That's why we need everyone else to function as a society.
I've watched a couple blacksmithing videos on youtube but I still don't really know how smelting iron works, and I wouldn't be able to produce a steel if my life depended on it. That's literally 2500+ year old tech.
- hexane360 4y agoWhat's even crazier is it's 2500+ year old tech that we turned into science in a period of about a hundred years (1860s-1960s).
- mantas 4y agoMore like labeled it as science.
- xref 4y agoKinda like all these “doctors” who just swaggered in and labeled brain surgery as science, we’ve been trepanning for thousands of years!
- mantas 4y agoIt was science back then, it is science now. Using technologies at the time. 2000 years from now, some people will look at our era as barbarian and unscientific.
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