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@alterelefant Doet me denken aan de #Wasa, het Zweedse oorlogsschip uit 1628 dat na 1300 meter varen zonk. Gebouwd door Nederlandse scheepsbouwers.
Een aanrader om te bekijken als je in Stockholm bent.
https://historiek.net/vasa-zweden-oorlogsschip-1628-wrak/81827/
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More from 1177BC...
"There are only a few instances in history of such globalized world systems; the one in place during the Late Bronze age and the one in place today are two of the most obvious examples, and the parallels -- comparisons might be a better world -- between them are sometimes intriguing.
"To give just one illustration, Carol Bell, a British academician, has observed that 'the strategic importance of tin in the LBA [Late Bronze Age] ... was probably not far different from that of crude oil today. At that time, tin is thought to have been available in quantity only from specific mines in the Badakhshan region of Afghanistan and had to be brought overland all the way to sites in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and north Syria, from where it was distrbuted to points father north, south, or west, including onward across the sea to the Agean. Bell contianues, 'The availability of enough tin to produce ... weapons grade bronze must have exercised the minds of the Great King in Hattusa and the Pharaoh in Thebes the same way that supplying gasoline to the American SUV driver a reasonable cost preoccupies an American president today!"
- Eric Cline, "1177BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed," Preface to the revised edition, page xvii.#ClimateChange #Collapse #Change #1177BC #BronzeAgeCollapse #HistoryRepeatingItself #Histodon #ExtractiveIndustries
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"According to Joseph Tainter, who literally wrote the book on the collapse of complex societies, 'collapse is fundamentally a sudden, pronounced loss of an established level of sociopolitical complexity.' That was exactly what happened back in 1177 BC."
- Eric Cline, "1177BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed," Preface to the revised edition, page xvii.
#ClimateChange #Collapse #Change #1177BC #BronzeAgeCollapse #HistoryRepeatingItself
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That being said, after reading the below article I have found a fresh perspective. I've learned about this pattern before. This is simply #HistoryRepeatingItself. Similar conversations and revelations happened during the #IndustrialRevolution around mass production factories eliminating many worker positions that had been manually done for centuries. Today, it's centered around #humanz being replaced by intelligent computers. Hasn't that always been the goal of computers, let alone intelligent systems? To replace or automate tasks humanz no longer want to do? Or did I misunderstand the whole point of the technological revolutions of our time?