Even just the specific knowledge of building a house is probably a generation removed from most people these days. It scares me to think of just how fragile we really are.

Sure, but what is forgotten makes room for novel ideas which are hopefully sometimes improvements. Plus, now we have computers to write and share this knowledge so it doesn't always have to be memorized.

> which are hopefully sometimes improvements

The death of Latin is very upsetting.

Technically, there are more Latin speakers alive today than cumulatively during the Roman Empire. However, I think negligibly few are _native_ speakers.

Exponential population growth is weird.

Why is that out of curiosity?

Reading the English for Catullus 16 (pretty dirty) and feeling jealous that they could put it so succinctly in their own language. Also this TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shape....

It was the common language of the time.

This is absolutely perfect and is exactly the type of knowledge that I'm so afraid we'll lose with even one generation of major civil disruption.