Very true. There have been incidences of advanced societies who due to reasons i wont dive into were cut off from the rest of the world, within a few decades their technological progress, knowledge had significantly regressed.
Something that I was talking about with nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s last night stuck in my head. Most people think that technological progress is a one directional path. We learn new things and move forward, never sliding backwards, never losing knowledge along the way.
But this isn’t true. Just look at the dark ages. Just look at the civilizations of the Maya, or ancient Egyptians. They had advanced mathematics, a deep understanding of the movements of the solar system; and yet, their knowledge was largely forgotten for centuries (and in some cases millennia) after they collapsed.
Just because we have books, and libraries, and the internet doesn’t mean we’re immune either.
The ability to build upon our collective knowledge and apply that knowledge to create a better world around us is a fragile thing.
It requires the ability to freely question, freely discuss, and free transact. It requires openness, humility, and curiosity. All things that are seriously lacking in our world today.
Nostr needs builders to grow. But I believe that Nostr also needs to grow the world’s supply of builders if we want to continue to progress forward, and not tumble backwards into the dark.
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Discussion
Sometimes I think technological progress is an oxymoron and that new technologies are constantly being created to cover up the problems created by layers of past technologies that were created for the same reason, and yet each new iteration has yet to correct the problem of not being able to accept a reality we cannot actually control in spite of all of our efforts.