Is there a generally accepted term for: • the period from the Agricultural Revolution to the Industrial Revolution? • the period before the Agricultural Revolution? Seems there really should be, but I don’t know any. Much more important than Stone/Bronze/Iron
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Replying to @jasoncrawford
Yes, stone/bronze/iron matches the archeological evidence, but H-G/agricultural/industrial is the more important societal concept. Old terms may persist, like how stellar distances are still reported in parsecs because that's how they could be measured first. Also carbon dates.
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Replying to @tlbtlbtlb @jasoncrawford
tangentially related, but https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080919075005.htm … "...in Syria where more than 90,000 plant fragments from 23,000 years ago show that wild cereals were being gathered over 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, before the last glacial maximum (18,000-15,000 years ago)."
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Replying to @DanielleFong @jasoncrawford
In some sense it's inspiring that so-called ages are usually long-preceded by a few people who could see the future, but it didn't catch on. Prehistoric da Vincis/Schmidhubers.
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Replying to @tlbtlbtlb @jasoncrawford
my guess is there’s so much of this in the present day. it is inspiring but also depressing. but I suppose like Y Combinator is sort of predicated on this like vast reservoir of untapped brilliance, so maybe it is a net optimistic thought
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Replying to @DanielleFong @jasoncrawford
If you could send da Vinci a postcard back though time to 1482 (when he was 30) what would it say? (The postcard that a student of history might send to you is left as an exercise to the treader.)
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Replying to @tlbtlbtlb @jasoncrawford
that is an incredibly good question. I’m going to go on the walk that I’ve been meaning to go on for the past hour and maybe it will come to me.
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ok
@tlbtlbtlb it’s a high variance strategy, but, I think he would do amazingly well with a description of a voltaic stack. I’d be tempted to send a description of a motor as well. feeling the faraday <=> da vinci crossover pretty strongly. i’d like to send him some wisdom too.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @DanielleFong @jasoncrawford
Definitely high-variance trying to push him 300 years into the future. Telescopes would be a safer bet. But I respect going for the hail Mary pass.
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you can do so much when you have a voltaic stack
telescopes would be great but, it feels a little like theft from my friend Galileo
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