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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7339202" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>There are countless examples of lost technologies. There are all kinds of megalithic structures the details of whose engineering remains mysterious. Or consider the Chinese Empire that created sooo many things, but by the time the Europeans came through, had forgotten they were the inventors of these “new technologies “. Medicinal use of maggots and leeches died out for centuries...until a decade or so ago it was discovered that they did certain things better than modern medicine and surgical techniques.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes, the inventors- and/or those around them- didn’t see the potential. Funding to develop the innovation dries up. After the inventor dies, so does his work. At least, until it gets rediscovered...</p><p></p><p>Sometimes, technology gets developed and marketed, but the market doesn’t support the innovation for long enough, and it withers away.</p><p></p><p>Some ideas & inventions are repressed for religious or political reasons.</p><p></p><p>Some inventions and ideas get rapidly supplanted by other ones deemed “better”....even if they aren’t.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7339202, member: 19675"] There are countless examples of lost technologies. There are all kinds of megalithic structures the details of whose engineering remains mysterious. Or consider the Chinese Empire that created sooo many things, but by the time the Europeans came through, had forgotten they were the inventors of these “new technologies “. Medicinal use of maggots and leeches died out for centuries...until a decade or so ago it was discovered that they did certain things better than modern medicine and surgical techniques. Sometimes, the inventors- and/or those around them- didn’t see the potential. Funding to develop the innovation dries up. After the inventor dies, so does his work. At least, until it gets rediscovered... Sometimes, technology gets developed and marketed, but the market doesn’t support the innovation for long enough, and it withers away. Some ideas & inventions are repressed for religious or political reasons. Some inventions and ideas get rapidly supplanted by other ones deemed “better”....even if they aren’t. [/QUOTE]
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