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We do lose technology and engineering practices and human mental techniques. It is not all that rare. Roman concrete, greek fire, Indian musical sound pillars,
by lenkite 1y ago
We do lose technology and engineering practices and human mental techniques. It is not all that rare.
Roman concrete, greek fire, Indian musical sound pillars, Inca Masonry, Stradivarius Violins, Damascus Steel (the ancient technique), Polynesian Wayfinding - there are dozens of such lost arts.
- littlestymaar 1y agoIt's much worse than this: for most lost technologies we don't even have a written trace of its existence.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoThe article explicitly talks about everything you've mentioned, except for the Indian musical sound pillars and Polynesian wayfinding.