dannnex

the following is a continuation of my previous SU about how we know nothing as individuals and how we're all standing on a mountain of knowledge built by our predecessors 

so i was thinking about that again right
about how much collective knowledge we have. 
all the technologies and just...things that we have today

so i started thinking about what things people from the past would be shocked at if they knew we had
people commonly point out smartphones and electricity and stuff
which, yeah, they would definitely be shocked at that

my mind went there first as well, which makes sense, i'm a very techy computery person
but i realized that, recognized my own biases, so I intentionally went in the opposite direction
sure, they'd be shocked at all the new things we have
but in a way
i think they'd be more shocked at all the things we don't.