Timeline for What era would find today's technology overwhemling?
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| Jul 21, 2020 at 21:49 | comment | added | lonstar | This is a good perspective and what I was also looking for - the things we take for granted and what's the earliest era person who would probably find them wondrous in function but not confused about their form. For example, a long gun is intended to be pointed at something and throws a piece of lead when the trigger is pulled. To most adults past the 17th/18th centuries the purpose and operation of a modern bolt-action rifle would be likely be innately understandable without instruction, even if the concepts of a magazine of bullets inside the gun and smokeless powder are amazing. | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 18:37 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @AustinHemmelgarn Well, who are we to point fingers? Just look at how much porn is on the technological marvel that is our internet. | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 18:31 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | @DKNguyen DS9 covered 'actual' holodeck usage about as well as they could while maintaining their TV-PG rating. | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 17:54 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @AustinHemmelgarn You should ask them how they go to the bathroom...and what people really use the holodeck for. | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 17:50 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | @DKNguyen Probably mostly just irritated about being abducted, though maybe a bit in awe about time travel being real and the implications of working transporter technology on the development of quantum mechanics, though I'm a rather atypical individual. Realistically though, the thing likely to overwhelm most people isn't the technology, it's it's ubiquity, uniformity, and the culture around it. | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 17:27 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @AustinHemmelgarn Put another way, if the Enterprise showed up from the future and beamed you board it, would you be overwhelmed? Or would you be merely in awe? | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 15:37 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | I really agree with this, many of the abstract concepts behind modern technology can be found evne in ancient historical records, albeit under differing names (for example, what we call robots would have been called golems or homunculi multiple centuries ago), and it's only when you get into the details of how modern technology works that it gets complicated and confusing. The level of standardization present in modern society though is something that most ancient civilizations wouldn't have even dreamed of. | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 12:00 | history | answered | David258 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |