Metallurgy is by far the most important human technology. That's why "copper", "bronze" and "iron" are used to classify ages.

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jacquesm 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

There is no 'most important' human technology. All of it interlocks, and usually the prerequisite steps all need to be followed before you can progress to the next level. I wonder how long it would take given a paper copy of wikipedia (hopefully printed on acid free paper) to get back to a functional technology society. I'm sure it would go faster than the first time around, but I'm not so sure it would be less than a few hundred years.

	▲	otabdeveloper4 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Wikipedia is useless for rebooting technological society, it doesn't show where or how to mine the necessary minerals.

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arethuza 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even more than agriculture?

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the__alchemist 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Metal has the fortunate process of durability over millenia... we are biased by what we find.