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John Michael Godier recently said something quite interesting. He was talking about A.I. and postulated that it could monitor humanity and harvest the technology we created-wipe us out and start the cycle out all over again and harvest the new technology the new cycle created. This is fascinating and makes me wonder. Would a reboot give us a few new things or would it be the same? Like maybe both iterations would make bronze tools and irrigation but one of them would make something unique that the other cycle didn’t have. Is that possible? Or would both cycles have the same fundamental stuff?
I personally have never believed in the concept of a tech tree. Yes there are commonalities based on how the universe works (iron for example is so common and convenient I have doubts people wouldn't eventually start using it no matter where and when at least for a little bit) and such but some things just sort of appear for no reason except "the time was right".
Mind you. This assumes an actual reboot not the exact scenario you're talking about.
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