Useless but fun speculation of the day: If you were suddenly transported back to the 12th century, what useful modern inventions could you re-create, using only then-current technology, or technologies you made from then-current technology?
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Could you actually do radio back then? I don't know if glass blowing was advanced enough for vacuum tubes (might not be necessary for AM radio, can't remember) and not sure if materials required for capacitors were available
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Spark gap. If you have a windmill or waterwheel, you can generate electricity. Copper was around; you can draw copper wire and wind transformers & electromagnets. As for a receiver, galena crystals or other semiconducting metals. Easy to make an earphone.
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Bro, coffee! How could you not mention this?
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Plant from subtropical Africa and SE Asia. An absurd number of techs needed to get to those places and not die of tropical disease.
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Probability is great. You'd revolutionize decision-making, unironically.
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