Our writing system is from the Romans, who adapted it from the Greeks, who adapted it from the Phoenicians... You can take pretty much any aspect of our lives and draw a uninterrupted genealogical path from here back to the lives of people who lived thousands of years ago
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@fchollet, because the Phoenicians adapted their writing, and arithmetic, from many civilisations that predate theirs. The thought of the contributions of all those civilisations to modern life evokes genuine gratitude
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Agile dev over massive time scale. What do you think will become the artifacts and ruins of our time, and what will be adopted and enjoyed without giving a second thought to?
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