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Hah, as if people 2000 years ago were more open to challenging ideas.
by RealityVoid 3y ago
Hah, as if people 2000 years ago were more open to challenging ideas.
- musicale 3y agoIt's remarkable what some 200,000 people (maybe fewer?) in ancient Athens were apparently able to come up with.[1] They even did pretty well with computing with the Antikythera mechanism and its predecessors; though, like Babbage, they were limited by the manufacturing technology of the day. [1] https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1165/ancient-greek-inventions/ https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1165/ancient-greek-inve...
- lifeonlars 3y agoNot sure this is a representative sample of "people 2000 years ago".
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