Ryan North: How to Invent Everything
Long Now
The Major Areas of Human Knowledge
Human knowledge is distributed across the entire population, he says. "No one person knows all of the details for even something as simple as a pencil here" We would have to try to relearn and redevelop all that knowledge if our civilization collapsed, he adds. 'How many of us today know how to walk out onto muddy fields with a handful of seed'
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