Here's a challenging thought experiment: What is the most modern technology that you could go back in time the farthest and still make? Ex: I think I could go back about 500 years and make: A simple camera. An electric battery. An electric guitar (but not an amp). You?
Nah, that's a tautology. You can't say something is only created if people want that something before it's created, but then how do they know they want it? Oh because it was created, but only if they want it? Why, oh 'cause it's created...? That's not how any invention worked.
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Sure, but there WAS a guy in ancient greece with a basic steam machine, and did zilch with it so I don't think it is too crazy to extend to, say, basic electricity the guy wanted to create it, had the means, and the money for it
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I think it's more the side technologies; a steam machine is cool, but it won't do you much good without the rest of the precision machinery to go with it still, you'd probably could make a good steam archimedean screw and they had the use for it, and yet...
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