Modern Electronics (was Re: List charter mods & headcount... ; -))

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Sun Jun 20 23:20:45 2004

>> Who nowadays can knap a stone knife? hunt and kill game with no
>> weapon but a spear? make a bow, and arrows to go with it? make a
>> fire with a wood drill, or even flint and steel?
> Who the hell needs to know this stuff on a daily basisanyway?

Exactly: not all knowledge loss is problematic.

> If you need to know how to do this stuff, ask someone that knows, or
> go to the library.

> The knowledge isn't lost, people, it is archived just where it ought
> to be.

Is it? These aren't exactly things on which textbooks are written.
(I do recall reading of some archaeological team who taught themselves
to knap stone tools, but I'm inclined to doubt it's the kind of
knowledge that lends itself very well to recording.)

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