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1:40:52 Without technology like book printing, it's incredibly slow and difficult to spread ideas on a larger scale.
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1:38:17 Eratosthenes (born ca. 276 BC) calculated the circumference of the earth pretty accurately. That the earth was round was common knowledge in the middle ages. The "enlightenment" wanted to portray those who came before them as dumb. Regarding the means to sail the atlantic: because of the precise calculations, if there weren't a continent between Europe/Africa and Asia, any attempt to sail to Asia was suicide not because of falling off, but inability to carry enough supplies, worms eathing the ship from with-under them, storms. It's just that Columbus miscalculated and the crown desperate enough. If there wouldn't have been America in between, the exploration would have gone horribly wrong.
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1:20:33 OK, what about the keyboard? It's not that we grew a 11th finger or something. There's the chorded keyboard from Doug Engelbart, but it doesn't provide enough combinations for some of the special characters used in programming.
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58:16 What does this mean, concretely? The law says that per default, all rights are reserved, and as you're subject to the law of your jurisdiction, what rights do you want to grant to make it a common good? Who is "we"?
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1:47:32 Maybe there isn't a 50/50 chance any more?