How Information Becomes Lost To The Ages: A Tumblr Thread

How much lost information has there been? What amazing innovations and technologies have been lost to time? I think we do a better job of documenting things these days, but if COVID 2.0 wiped out half of us? I think we’d lose a lot of skills. Just because someone wrote down how to make a TV doesn’t mean I could make one.

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