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  • The processes in manufacturing largely remained the same. Doing things faster makes things easier not more difficult.

    Look at the Eiffel tower for example, immensely complicated, wild design and largely pointless (compared to modern standards).

    Or compare old wooden windmills to one of the most modern structures, large open water windmills. hundreds of meters tall, simple tubular construction.

    The ability that CAD and computer power in general gave us was the ability to simplify and not use more than necessary. The ability to model strength, rigidity and whatever forces necessary, that’s where the real power lies.

    and i think that we can’t really speak about more or less difficult. The structures and designs of the past clearly have a very high level of complexity, while most modern constructions deliberately eliminate complexity. But we can’t do that without computers.





  • Yes. And also explains why worldviews are so different between cultural, linguistical and geographically different groups of people.

    Even though we’re becoming more and more unified, through the internet, through logic systems like maths or science in general. This is not to be mistaken for truth. Western scientific ideology specifically has as unspoken ‘truth’ that when ideas ‘win’, they are more valuable. While English, our logical rules, our ideologies are winning not because they are true but because they are believed more, or over, other languages, logic systems and ideologies.

    Ofcourse these systems of beliefs create opportunities and knowledge for people. Don’t mistake my dismissal of truth for disaproval.