When I was a youngling dad put his wallet on the kitchen bench one day and was talking. I picked it up and opened it. He looked at me and didn't say put it down, which meant I was cool to proceed. First I went for the cash, and counted it. But then I found a piece of folded paper and asked what is this? Dad replied, that's my drivers license.
I said one day I'll have one. I remember dad going off about having to have one. It was a long long time ago and I was just a child, but I remember him being upset that he had to have identification, I remember that clearly. Strange thing is, looking back in my memory ...that drivers license was a folded piece of paper and there was no photo.
These days? 100 points needed. A photo I.D is not enough. You need 3 forms of I.D equaling 100 points, and NOW they want to take it even further with Covid Passports?
I wonder when all is said and done if we'll be rid of all these identification methods? "Show me your papers"
Cities full of cameras. Red light cameras. Speed cameras. Pedestrian cameras. Security cameras. I.D verification systems ....all of it. Will we return to a time when we won't need any of this? Or is the future going to be a surveillance state after the Storm?
Tech doesn't reverse? LOL. Sure.
I don't doubt that, I scoff at the statement that tech doesn't reverse. It has hundreds of times in our past, it will again in the future.
100 or 1,000 years from now we may be back to the middle ages in the debris of a technological civilization.
(The bronze age collapse) Some groups lost the ability to write for hundreds of years before they picked it back up again. Monument building was lost by some cultures. Making of bronze was lost by some cultures. etc.
(The dark ages.) The loss of roman concrete technology, ship building, glazed ceramics, realistic sculpture, realistic art, flush toilets, indoor plumbing, greenhouses, etc.
There are hundreds of such examples in recorded history; how many were lost in pre-history?
I'd suggest there are some remnants of an ancient technological society that fell. The example I would give is LCD televisions. "Scrying mirrors" seem to me to be a remnant of ancient LCD televisions technology that was lost. If you do an image search on "scrying mirrors" you'll see a bunch of polished black scrying mirrors. Now turn off your computer/tablet and tell me it doesn't look exactly like a scrying mirror.
If there was a huge worldwide EMP event that wiped out technology worldwide, there would be a generation that would grow up in a world with all these black scrying mirror looking things and stories from the elders about how they could see into the past and future with them, or see events in distant lands through them. It would seem like magic to a kid who never knew electronic devices.
Eventually such a society would lose all its members with direct knowledge of this technological time and the physical non-functioning remains of the scrying mirrors might develop ritual around them. I think that is one way to account for the use of scrying mirrors and their appearance.
Go do a search in google images for scrying mirrors so you can see what it is I am talking about.