https://www.historicaltechtree.com/
"The historical tech tree is a project by Étienne Fortier-Dubois to visualize
the entire history of technologies, inventions, and (some) discoveries, from
prehistory to today. Unlike other visualizations of the sort, the tree
emphasizes the connections between technologies: prerequisites, improvements,
inspirations, and so on.
These connections allow viewers to understand how technologies came about, at
least to some degree, thus revealing the entire history in more detail than a
simple timeline, and with more breadth than most historical narratives. The
goal is not to predict future technology, except in the weak sense that knowing
history can help form a better model of the world. Rather, the point of the
tree is to create an easy way to explore the history of technology, discover
unexpected patterns and connections, and generally make the complexity of
modern tech feel less daunting.
The idea of tech trees comes from games, especially the
Civilization series.
But game tech trees optimize for fun, not accuracy. They have often been
criticized, and for good reason: they embed assumptions about the nature of
technological progress that can be problematic. For example, they force
technology to advance in a predetermined way; they rely on certain cultural
ideas about progress; and they're simplistic.
This historical tech tree presented here is not a game tree. It is also
constrained by assumptions, but different ones."
Via
Recomendo - issue #475:
https://www.recomendo.com/p/wikitokphone-endoscopehistorical
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
