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dyen49k@kbin.social to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 1125 points –
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Solely based on knowledge, yes. In practice most of us wouldn't be able to create a half working lamp from raw materials.

"I call it...FIRE!!! Oh. Shit. You already have that. I don't really know any others."

This is also why at see inventions emerge almost at the same moment from people who don't share knowledge.

A lot of invention is material science.

Even if I know enough to make a modern computer from raw materials, I'm not going to find the necessary industry to refine those raw materials correctly in the 1400s.

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