Agreed, Duane. It's part of progress. Sadly, much knowledge has been lost for whatever reasons. Those of you who enjoy history might want to Google the Library of Alexandria. But I digress.
I'm a history buff as well as an engineer. Even in my short lifetime I've seen once valuable skills lost to the passage of time. I remember my Father, also an engineer, speaking of the same.
Like you, I cannot create an arrowhead or spear point from flint, nor can I harness or drive a team. Such skills are no longer required, though the loss of such is saddening.
Soon, I will loose a close friend. He is about 20 years older than I am and is the only man that I know that could pour and fit babbit bearings. He also knows more than anyone I have known about wood, forestry and woodworking. I've watched him build Model T depot hack bodies from trees.
How many of us could maintain, or even operate, the triple expansion steam engines that powered the Titanic, or the Blucher at Dogger Banks?
The atlatl is considered one of mankind's greatest inventions, right up there with the wheel. No one knows how many millennia civilization would have been delayed had it not been invented in Paleolithic times, yet today, few even know what it is. Carburetors, hydraulic brakes, alternators, etc., pale in comparison.
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