Parallels: Ancient to Future Tech

02.24.21

A few weeks ago we offered the graphic above to introduce a different kind of thought in the tech world… Examining the roots, the deep, ancient roots. We hear a lot about technological origin stories with the IBMs and Apples of the 1970s/80s, but what are the deeper roots of some of today’s greatest techno-advancement?

Parallels

This is where we come in today. To start these explorations we will be building a great new Wisdom section dedicated to ancient technologies and the linkages, parallels if you will, to their innovative contemporaries.

Our introduction to that section debuts next Wednesday. We’ll begin pulling a quick sketch of the parallels between early, ancient tech as found in one of humanity’s oldest urban outposts: Mesopotamia, and comparing today’s greatest variants. Specifically, we’ll get a glance into power and elegance, energy and architecture. See you all next week!

As a means of bookkeeping, in the graphic above all the graphics, save the Hanging Gardens, came from an Envato Elements subscription. That standalone graphic has a special source. While the source of the Hanging Gardens Graphic didn’t suggest any restrictions on use, we site as referenced on that site and offer it below. If anyone should see any problem with this please let us know. Our goal, the open dissemination of thought and inspiration, through digital word, art, and work.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Beautiful reconstruction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 24, 2021. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-4d45-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99