Harmonia Philosophica

Category: Forgetting

Forgetting, Modern Civilization, Technology

2014/02/13

3D printing as a way to skills oblivion, monuments, aliens.

3D printers now print even metal and are getting bigger and better. (1, 2) The old craft of metal manufacturing and welding will soon be forgotten. Oh, I would love to see the faces of "high tech" people of the future when for some reason their machines break or when they will just want to…
Forgetting, History, Old times

2013/10/03

Old highways. Long gone...

Three rivers now interred beneath heaps of sand in the Sahara Desert might have been the superhighways of the Stone Age. Simulations reveal that the rivers, each about as big as the Missouri or Rhine River, meandered across the Sahara 125,000 years ago. Early humans probably followed the lush corridors as migration routes across North…