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Talk:Logarithmic timeline
May be to unify Events and Inventions / Discoveries ?

==Better name for "Outside context problem"==
[[User:MyRedDice]] deleted the "Outside context problem" column with the comment ''rm OCP - Iain Banks is not a scientist - out of place here''.

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::Looking at it another way, we need to define what ultimate goal or direction we are using to judge "progress" and "regression".  I suspect this will be quite difficult.  Is the survival of mankind, or the health of the planet, or maybe a comfortable afterlife for religious believers, the ultimate goal?  It depends on your POV. --[[User:Heron|Heron]] 16:28, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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::When Watt re-designed the Steam engine, he didn't just dump the cold water from the mines back onto the boiler, which was the previous design. He separated the cold from the hot water. This was later formalized in the Carnot cycle. We can't just dump any old event into the pot, Progress becomes impossible if we live without understanding which factors are productive, which factors are counter-productive. If we attach a label to an event, it can then be viewed retrospectively, re-examined, and debugged in light of an overall process. [[User:Ancheta Wis|Ancheta Wis]] 16:47, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)