From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Fri May 28 1999 - 23:58:15 MDT
> Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: ... It is idle fantasy to
> imagine that (1) technology can move backwards, ...
The latest Star Wars episode made me wonder: can technology
go backwards? They seemed to imply technology was going
violently aft. Can anyone think of an example, now or in any time
past, where a society had it and later didn't? Descended from
enlightenment to superstition? Would dark ages Europe qualify? spike
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