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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 01:49:37 JST myrmepropagandist

   Do you ever think about abandoned tech trees? Like how no one is working to design better drafting compasses or vellum? No one is perfecting vacuum tubes. No one is laser focused on methods to speed paint and accurate portrait by hand to send out for marriage proposals.

   Technological leaps make entire areas of research pointless— but

   What if just a bit further down the line on the old tech tree there was some bigger breakthrough we’ll never see? I think about this A LOT.

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     Pet Rock (eclogiter@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 01:49:36 JST Pet Rock

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     @futurebird
     They invented animation with two frames early on, but it took 15000 years for the simplest contraptions with more frames.

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     Longplay Games :pc_color: 🎮 (longplay_games@mstdn.games)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 07:48:28 JST Longplay Games :pc_color: 🎮

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     @futurebird I think about that a lot.
     Over my career which spans... too many years... it seems like in *many* cases the worst but better marketed technology has prevailed.

     So I often consider the alternatives, especially when dealing with what I perceive as flaws in the prevailing system.

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