On: Stone Age Britons imported wheat

[venomsnake]

I got that memo the first time I saw the pyramids. The engineers were technologically inferior, but new their craft and were smart.

[TeMPOraL → venomsnake]

And knew their craft to the extent that is rarely seen today. When you only have few poor tools with which you work your whole life, and want to do big things, you end up knowing those tools as well as methods from inside out. Depth vs. breadth.

[marcosdumay → TeMPOraL]

It was probably also rare to see it back them. We have examples of what, a few dozen of those super engineers in a timespan of several centuries.

[venomsnake → marcosdumay]

You need to match a genius with resources. And ... with the amount of bloodshed - we don't know what is lost.

[oneweekwonder → TeMPOraL]

Friend recently shared a short story with me, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - Harry Turtledove[1] and what you said reminded me of it.

[1]: http://pastebin.com/aJQfubrK

[TeMPOraL → oneweekwonder]

I read that story, it's amazing; one of my favourite short stories ever.

Which reminded me of another related story, Superiority, by Arthur C. Clarke[0]. From what I heard, it's actually a required reading at Westpoint.

[0] - http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html

[agumonkey → venomsnake]

Here goes our technofetishistic era.