Re: The joy of Technology

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 12:49:47 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

I also don’t understand why there was no American bronze age
when they certainly used metals, including copper.

That level of technology is called “chalcolithic”. That is, they mainly
use fine stone tools, but they have also found a limited use for copper,
which can be found lying around pure in some places, is easily workable
but too soft to do much with. And they haven’t yet developed smelting
technology to extract metals from ores and create harder alloys out of
them, like bronze.

There is always resistance to new technological developments. They are
often seen as a threat to the established order.