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[cladking]

We had to switch. Numbers and shit. You can't draw 200 light bulbs on the check when you want to pay the electric bill.

Plus, think about the layers of languages needed to make a computer function. Remember typing in the actual programs back in the day? It took an entire day of typing to play Wombat and debugging was a bitch.

The first peoples weren't as abstract as we are. They didn't need our depth of knowledge. I do firmly believe most ancient peoples understood the natural sciences better than most moderns except for medicine/health/healing.

I don't entirely disagree but wouldn't say it this way.

I do disagree that programming would be more difficult in the ancient languages. If I'm right then those languages would be taylor made for programming. They wouldn't need much more than a standardized format and the definition of a few more terms. Of course we'd have never gotten to the point that we'd have the technology to invent an electronic computer without a flexible language to communicate new discoveries. A mechanical, hydraulic, or light operated computer might be possible with primitive technology and there is an exceedingly simple mechanical ancient Roman computer.

Math problems could be resolved with primitive speech and the Egyptians did have a character representing "10", "100", etc...

The early computers weren't programmable at all and had to be entirely rewired for each problem. The British employed a lot of women to rewire their computer each day to break the German codes.

Most of what people "know" is really just opinion. Most real knowledge is in the guts and bones. Real knowledge is experience or "hunch" born of experience. The ancient people knew they were wholly ignorant and this gave them the awesome power to build pyramids with primitive knowledge and tools. Modern man is simply omniscient and incapable of figuring out how the pyramids were built despite the vast array of technology at our disposal. Our complete knowledge makes us weak and stupid and is born of the confusion of the language. If we can say anything and get an answer to everything it simply follows that nothing is beyond our grasp. (at least nothing but the most basic things and the painfully obvious)