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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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What I Love About Science Fiction and Technology

When you start thinking about how human history as been for most of human history, and it begins to sound like science fiction, that's when you know we live in really interesting times, right? Mean, take for example this pace of change question. Ah, forget the fact that it can sometimes seemingly move backwards, right? And knowledge can get lost in certain places at certain times, and capabilities can go down like a civilizational stock market and decline. Forget all that for a second. But just focus on all the ramifications that happen in he society when knowledge, especially things like technological knowledge, when those things stay current for much longer swaths of time.mean, here's an analogy.

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