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A comment on We Rarely Lose Technology (2023).

Re:We Rarely Lose Technology (2023) by lenkite on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:46AM (#45168995)
We do lose technology and engineering practices and human mental techniques. It is not all that rare.

Roman concrete, greek fire, Indian musical sound pillars, Inca Masonry, Stradivarius Violins, Damascus Steel (the ancient technique), Polynesian Wayfinding - there are dozens of such lost arts.

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Re:We Rarely Lose Technology (2023) by pavel_lishin on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:09AM (#45169296)
The article explicitly talks about everything you've mentioned, except for the Indian musical sound pillars and Polynesian wayfinding.
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Re:We Rarely Lose Technology (2023) by littlestymaar on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:48AM (#45169020)
It's much worse than this: for most lost technologies we don't even have a written trace of its existence.
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