What takes place when the makers still work, but nobody keeps in mind just how they were constructed? We discover technical amnesia, black-box automation, shed experience, and worlds trapped inside inherited technology.
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Credits:
Can a Civilization Forget How Its Own Technology Works?
Created, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:51 Forgetting the Footnotes
7:33 Black Boxes and Sacred Buttons
12:46 12 Years
14:08 Tradition, Taboo, and the Maintenance Guild
19:54 Colonies That Inherit Too Much
23:22 The Stagnant Stars
27:03 Alien Life
28:03 How Not to Forget