Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose?
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11 months agoThing is, industrial revolution bleeds into colonialism. Sure, there was colonialism before industrialization, and colonialism would look very different in a time before nation-states as we know them today, but those resources will have to come from somewhere.
Metallurgy is always where they get you on these things. You can bring stuff like division of labor, assembly lines, and replaceable parts back in time pretty easily, but good luck getting aluminum for your bicycles in any kind of quantity. Not sure how well a bronze bicycle would work, but I bet it could be done.
Believe it or not, the money isn’t the hard part. The endless environmental studies, NIMBYism, and debate make it nearly impossible to build projects of any size in the US anymore.