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Metallurgy is by far the most important human technology. That's why "copper", "bronze" and "iron" are used to classify ages.
by otabdeveloper4 1y ago
Metallurgy is by far the most important human technology. That's why "copper", "bronze" and "iron" are used to classify ages.
- arethuza 1y agoEven more than agriculture?
- jacquesm 1y agoThere is no 'most important' human technology. All of it interlocks, and usually the prerequisite steps all need to be followed before you can progress to the next level. I wonder how long it would take given a paper copy of wikipedia (hopefully printed on acid free paper) to get back to a functional technology society. I'm sure it would go faster than the first time around, but I'm not so sure it would be less than a few hundred years.
- otabdeveloper4 1y agoWikipedia is useless for rebooting technological society, it doesn't show where or how to mine the necessary minerals.
- the__alchemist 1y agoMetal has the fortunate process of durability over millenia... we are biased by what we find.