[quote=keolah]
... And my point about technology isn't that firearms aren't a relatively advanced technology, but that the invention of gunpowder didn't spark (no pun intended) the existence of "technology". Windmills, waterwheels, clocks, these are all technology too. "Technology" didn't just spring into existence overnight.
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Perhaps what people mean when they think of magic vs technology isn't so much technology as industrialization?
IMO, though the industrial age started with steam power and cast iron, the real key to our industrialized society was the invention of the Bessemer process to make affordable steel.
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