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Has human society ever regressed in terms of its technological advancements? For example, going from email back to hand written letters (that would be an extreme example). Can you name any examples of this happening in the past? Or maybe in the future?
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>>57404539
>>>/his/
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Do your own homework shitlord
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well, we used to be able to go to the moon, but now we can't
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>>57404601
good goy
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>>57404539
you mean, like in the middle ages?
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>>57404539
Embrace saharia law
Just sit and wait
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>>57404539
yes.
ever thought about what churches and religions did to science ?
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Smartphones. Especially the apple ones.
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>>57404539
Not really. Sometimes the older tech might be used, because it's better in one regard, but those are rare scenarios.

If the new technology is faster, cheaper, easier and not a gimmick it's going to replace the older version.
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Bronze age collapse
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>>57404539
70mm film was way better than 35mm in image quality, but 35mm became the standard.
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Windows 10
Tablets
wireless anything meme
speaker bars
digital electricity meters
javascript
systemd
google anything
self-driving vehicles
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>>57404539
yes, many times. Bronze age collapse, fall of the Roman Empire, etc.
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>>57404616
It's true though. We don't have any rockets capable of manned interplanetary flight at this point, though we did in the past.
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>>57404539
Not /g/ related, but yeah, the fall of Rome.
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>>57404539
Middleage, fall of Oriental scientific advancements
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Segways.
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>>57406112
but the moon landing was recorded by WARNER BROTHERS at studio 13!!!!!
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>>57404673

Preserved and helped it grow. Modern technologies, maths and sciences would be nowhere without religious men. If anything, atheism has stunted it's progress in the past 2 centuries by trying to force square pegs into round holes.
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>>57406714
>Preserved and helped it grow
Yeah, we owe a shitload to the monks that bothered transcribing Greek works into Latin, that much is true. Pretty much everything else you said is retarded trash but I like that first thought you had.
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>>57406819

>Can't history

You have to be at least 18 to post here, sport.
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>>57406819
>what is the cistercian order
I guess you still haven't had your history classes. I have to remind you, Timmy, underaged children aren't allowed here.
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>>57406819
I bet you believe they burned books in the (((dark ages)))
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>Romans have public baths and sewer systems in the B.C. era
>1200 A.D.
>Western Europeans toss buckets of shit in the streets and aristocrats don't bother bathing.
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>>57406933
Roman public baths were not primarily intended for hygiene, that was just a fortunate side effect.
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>>57406965
>Roman public baths were not primarily intended for hygiene

Sounds like a severe underestimation of the Romans.
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>>57406933
>>57406965
>>57406983
Reminder that the Holy Roman Empire had quite a larger population density than the Roman Empire, the cities had sprawled more, and the public latrines couldn't possibly accommodate every ass daily
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>>57407011
>Western Europe
>Holy Roman Empire
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>>57407049
Read just Europe, have a bit of a headache currently over here.

Still applies though.
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>>57406910
They did, starting during the Christianization of the Roman Empire. There are a number of books that we only have because they were hidden in the desert from attempts to burn them, erased and overwritten with more pious material, or because they actually were burned and disposed of in a way that actually preserved them.

That's how we today have a number of books now that previously were only known from Christian authors quotations of them in their attacks on them. The ability to read the actual erased and burned books in particular is really cool.

Unfortunately there are still a number of books from antiquity on such satanic concepts as mechanical computing devices that didn't survive the purges but it seems unlikely that there would be anything new to us in their pages other than information about just how much was really lost.
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We used to have headphone jacks on our phones and now we don't anymore.
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They made Lisp, and then technology completed regressed into every shit "scripting language" made since then.
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>>57404539
viking overthrow of the roman empire. easy.
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>>57404539

We used to enjoy unlimited data without caps and now we don't.
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>>57407313
>le purge meem
>reminder that the literal vandals were pagan german tribes
Come on Timmy, I get you're mad at Father Richard for touching your weewee but he's a rotten apple, and has been ousted for that. Not everybody is like him, and there's no need to shitpost like that. When you turn into a big boy and go to high school and take history lessons, you'll understand.
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>>57404539
going from keyboard and mouse to touchscreens.
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>>57407563
>lisp
>regressed
Oh boy you're in for a surprise when you finally learn about that. If Will Smith taught me something, is to not judge somebody by their children.
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>>57407566
We still do here in the 3rd world.
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>>57407570
Actually most of them were Christians, but they were the wrong sort of Christians. It took a long time for the basic orthodoxy of Christianity to settle down and there were a number of bloody wars before trinitarian christianity won out.

Though in a way those conflicts never really ended. Islam actually preserves some of the tenets of a lost form of Christianity as it co-opted and absorbed groups in the middle east who had different doctrines.
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We surely regressed mentally if a few centuries ago the most popular music was ballads (for the lower class) and classical music (for city dwellers and nobles), while today the most popular music is made by nignogs barking "nigga, nigga, nigga, biatch" on the backdrop of a melody taken from some older classics and remixed with autotune.
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>>57404539
Dark Ages
Spanish Flu
Bubonic Plague
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