name one genie that was put back in the bottle
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Replying to @deepfates @mitdasein
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@SamoBurja but the lycurgus cup is a decent example.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_Cup …1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
cool, i never heard of that! however i think this is sus: " The process used remains unclear, and it is likely that it was not well understood or controlled by the makers, and was probably discovered by accidental "contamination" with minutely ground gold and silver dust. "
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to be blunt, i wouldn't expect our society to admit to or keep good track of inventions for which we have lost the art. at the core of our collective mythos is our pretensions to being the most technologically advanced culture ever. this is not to comment on its truth value.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @thesravaka and
in the sense that it's everywhere and still in use? or in the sense that, expertise in it is a rare skill
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Replying to @deepfates @thesravaka and
dying skill, expertise rare. there are still systems that run it but it is becoming incresingly arcane, eventually it will die i think
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Replying to @DanielleFong @thesravaka and
does a technology die if it is supplanted by its descendants?
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sort of / not exactly. can you claim Javascript is a decendant of COBOL? I suppose. proficiency in one doesn’t give you the other but a bit of an edge I guess. perhaps if you can locate a good store of manuals.
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