The scenario is the following:
A society that is less advanced than the one producing a certain technology is exposed to the latter. The person who finds the device/fragment in question is either a A, layman, a B, trained engineer or an C, inventor/visionary, and the technology might range from a working consumer product to a fragment. Lets stay at todays/the near past's technology and backwards in time, the point is to see a pattern!
For example, if we imagine that an iPhone dropped down onto the table where Jack Kilby in the late 1950's were experimenting on semiconductor technology, would he and his team be able to discover that the CPU-technology involved is a derivative of their work? Might they figure out how it was made from studying it?
Another example: would a turbine blade from a modern fighter jet dropped in the 1930:s lead to advanced jet fighters showing up earlier?
Do you think any general rules can be gleaned from such theoretical scenarios?
(I wasn't sure where to put this - here or in General engineering. I chose here, but I would want qualified speculation rather than "just make something up")
A society that is less advanced than the one producing a certain technology is exposed to the latter. The person who finds the device/fragment in question is either a A, layman, a B, trained engineer or an C, inventor/visionary, and the technology might range from a working consumer product to a fragment. Lets stay at todays/the near past's technology and backwards in time, the point is to see a pattern!
For example, if we imagine that an iPhone dropped down onto the table where Jack Kilby in the late 1950's were experimenting on semiconductor technology, would he and his team be able to discover that the CPU-technology involved is a derivative of their work? Might they figure out how it was made from studying it?
Another example: would a turbine blade from a modern fighter jet dropped in the 1930:s lead to advanced jet fighters showing up earlier?
Do you think any general rules can be gleaned from such theoretical scenarios?
(I wasn't sure where to put this - here or in General engineering. I chose here, but I would want qualified speculation rather than "just make something up")
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