Has the internet or its parent technologies brought us any concepts for a world wide web of information that could be applied to a world without internet?
Say you time-travelled to 2,000 years ago and there were no paradoxes to worry about; is there anything that having all the world's information in your pocket has taught you? Anything that would help you help the people of the past evolve past recording data on goat scrotums and hiding it in clay jars in caves? A shortcut to becoming globally connected (loose term) free sharers of information? Or were the systems they had at the time, really the best that could have been achieved even in retrospect?
As far as I have considered, the most important things to bring to a world without electronics might be Engineering units, the Dewey Decimal System, and the telegraph.
Say you time-travelled to 2,000 years ago and there were no paradoxes to worry about; is there anything that having all the world's information in your pocket has taught you? Anything that would help you help the people of the past evolve past recording data on goat scrotums and hiding it in clay jars in caves? A shortcut to becoming globally connected (loose term) free sharers of information? Or were the systems they had at the time, really the best that could have been achieved even in retrospect?
As far as I have considered, the most important things to bring to a world without electronics might be Engineering units, the Dewey Decimal System, and the telegraph.