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<p>2022-Apr-17</p>
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<h1>Civlizations Forget</h1>
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I recently came across
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk"
>Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
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and it was an eye-opening talk. It is a must watch, especially if you're
working in anything that touches engineering.
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The talk goes over how knowledge can be lost over time, especially the
ones about the nuances and tradeoffs that gradually leads to the
degradation of technology. It was eye opening, and you start to notice
this pattern going all around you.
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<h2>People forget</h2>
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The default of any system is decay. Without significant effort working
against it, enough time and any system would crumble. This is
especially true for knowledge.
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This is why technology degrades. It takes a lot of energy to
communicate from generation to generation, there are losses.
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Knowledge is memory with nuance. It is built up over time and it's
really hard to communicate and pass on. Take the example of Film
Cameras. Those mechanical and Electrical cameras your parents used to
take pictures in ? that got replaced with the digital era. Well they
are having a comeback. But the problem is there are a lot of old
mechanical cameras
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