My take on this has always been that contrary to any other engineering field even the fundamentals change at a relative blink of an eye. A Roman-era civil engi

My take on this has always been that contrary to any other engineering field even the fundamentals change at a relative blink of an eye. A Roman-era civil engineer transported to _now_, a good 2000 years into the future, would still find gravity working exactly the same, concrete working the same, and will not find any of our modern architecture truly alien or incomprehensible. Computers? Take a programmer form merely 50 years ago and: CPU executes instructions one by one? Nope. You program starting from hardware? Nope. A JavaScript framework collection? Completely alien. Imagine best practices for bridge building if gravity was variable and susceptible to fashion cycles.