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Re: Historical Tech Tree

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Metallurgy is by far the most important human technology. That's why "copper", "bronze" and "iron" are used to classify ages.

There is no 'most important' human technology. All of it interlocks, and usually the prerequisite steps all need to be followed before you can progress to the next level. I wonder how long it would take given a paper copy of wikipedia (hopefully printed on acid free paper) to get back to a functional technology society. I'm sure it would go faster than the first time around, but I'm not so sure it would be less than…

Wikipedia is useless for rebooting technological society, it doesn't show where or how to mine the necessary minerals.

Re: Historical Tech Tree

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what's the technological difference between Chinese Writing and Western Writing? why are they separate?

(Not an expert but) Chinese writing is hieroglyphic, wheres 'western writing' is phonetic. Western writing has a very small character set and is thus well-suited to a printing press, whereas hieroglyphics have thousands of characters (for thousands of concepts) but aren't fundamentally linked to the language like western characters are.

> Western writing has a very small character set

If you include all of the Latin-script characters, Cyrillic, Greek, accent symbols and ligatures, you'd have over 300 characters, and that is a very conservative estimate

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