• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    That’s how most technology is:

    • combustion engines - early 1900s, earlier if you count steam engines
    • missiles - 13th century China, gunpowder was much earlier
    • wind energy - windmills appeared in the 9th century, potentially as early as the 4th

    Almost everything we have today is due to incremental improvements from something much older.