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Comment by UncleMeat

> In fact, throughout history there are times when humankind 'forgot' how to do certain things.

I wish, just once, that technology people would actually consult historians of science when making these sorts of claims. There is an entire community of people who study this topic for their entire lives and write books about it.

Yet myths persist. So many of the examples of "civilization forgot" are actually just false or at the very least the conclusions drawn about society from these stories are highly misleading.

parent UncleMeat 5 years ago

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