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Originally Posted by alatar
Surely we have even better materials today (but, being made in huge batches, aren't as unique as the thousands of individual mixes of steel). [...]Surely there were smart (even smarter) people back then, but they didn't have the information that is at our fingertips today to help. On the other hand, to me most people are the same as they were in the past.
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What I meant was that it is only in the last century that regaining a lot of lost knowledge. For example,
contact lenses.