(November 30, 2014 at 12:39 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 30, 2014 at 12:37 pm)Heywood Wrote: I imagine that you know more things today then you did 10 years ago. Nevertheless I am sure you have learned stuff and then forgotten what you learned. If this is true of every individual....why shouldn't it be true of the collective?
Because the collective only forgets when it's overrun or taken over by morons.
A disaster can crash the sum of human knowledge. Suppose a comet strikes our planet and over the next 10 years half the human population on earth dies. A lot of knowledge is going to disappear along with those people.
