These include factories, vacuum tubes (and through them early-tech varieties of computers), birth control and other forms of concerns for quality-of-life, and various forms of chemistry and so on.
Are you sure this is a good idea considering modern Western civilization hasn’t yet demonstrated the survivability of such technology? Let alone an upstart society in underpopulated Roman Spain. In any case the ancients did know means of birth control and it at various points sapped the power of the Roman state.
Silphium was reputed to have birth controlling properties because its seeds were heart-shaped. I was talking about something a little more… reliable… such as, say, Premarin.
As to the survivability of such technology—TFR explosions are a problem. birth control would be introduced to cut down overpopulation resultant from implementing immunological practices (vaccination and antibiotics.) The problems of modern fertility rate have far, far less to do with birth control and far more to do with the economics of raising children in a postindustrial environment. Even then, it turns out that TFR is showing a reversal of the declining trend in the last few years.
Overall I’d say there’s pretty little to worry about. Especially since I’d have a good five decades of longevity to play with; I could pretty reliably introduce computing and electronics within that window, and that would be enough to ensure humanity develop AGI sometime in the next few centuries.
Silphium was reputed to have birth controlling properties because its seeds were heart-shaped. I was talking about something a little more… reliable… such as, say, Premarin.
You got it wrong. It is the other way around.
There has been some speculation about the connection between silphium and the traditional heart shape (♥). The symbol is remarkably similar to the Egyptian “heart soul” (ib). The sexual nature of that concept, combined with the widespread use of silphium in ancient Egypt for birth control, and the fact that silphium seeds were heart-shaped, leads to speculation that the character for ib may have been derived from the shape of the silphium seed.
Are you sure this is a good idea considering modern Western civilization hasn’t yet demonstrated the survivability of such technology? Let alone an upstart society in underpopulated Roman Spain. In any case the ancients did know means of birth control and it at various points sapped the power of the Roman state.
Silphium was reputed to have birth controlling properties because its seeds were heart-shaped. I was talking about something a little more… reliable… such as, say, Premarin.
As to the survivability of such technology—TFR explosions are a problem. birth control would be introduced to cut down overpopulation resultant from implementing immunological practices (vaccination and antibiotics.) The problems of modern fertility rate have far, far less to do with birth control and far more to do with the economics of raising children in a postindustrial environment. Even then, it turns out that TFR is showing a reversal of the declining trend in the last few years.
Overall I’d say there’s pretty little to worry about. Especially since I’d have a good five decades of longevity to play with; I could pretty reliably introduce computing and electronics within that window, and that would be enough to ensure humanity develop AGI sometime in the next few centuries.
You got it wrong. It is the other way around.