Re: Oscilloscope dealers in the US

"Jonathan Kirwan" <jkirwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Which means... their children (or grandchildren) find it in their own
better personal interests to leverage their lives upon those important
durable goods made by a prior generation. It pays them better to USE
the highways, than to learn how to build them. And so there is a time
lag in the response function and a generation loses interest in
"keeping alive the knowledge." Which means it isn't deeply taught to
the new generation. And then a minor or major 'collapse' takes place.
New need is created, people begin to relearn again, infrastructure is
created anew, etc.

And in a wider sense, as the human race -- parts of it at least -- create
ever higher technology on top of the existing technology, even less
knowledge will be demanded of the average person (which does depend on the
average occupation, but it is more and more a service economy, so...).
Which means, in Darwin's terms, the human race needs less average
intelligence to survive, so in the span of perhaps just a few centuries (as
always: assuming the lemmings don't nuke themselves first), the average
human might, for the first time in history, have a reduced mental capacity.
And then the smart people would tend to divide into a seperate class.

But you're probably closer, wars and "collapse of society" will probably
muddle things up a good bit while this is happening and before this process
has much time to work itself away.

Tim

--
Deep Fryer: A very philosophical monk.
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