Here’s that possible connection to technology. I hope to live long enough to do it. I animated all tensegrity moves for which there’s a good video, which is only around half. Paid a team in Pakistan.
The other half is temporarily “lost”.
But it’s still so much available tensegrity a person could learn, that in fact they’d NEVER be able to memorize it all.
I know that for a fact from studying martial arts at many places, noticing not a single person in any of them knew all of their “katas” (forms). And that the leaders of those groups knew even fewer than anyone else. Over time, they literally stopped practicing.
But it’s trivial to make a virtual teacher these days, and have her show up when you have virtual reality goggles on, which also block all light in the room.
So that we have a chance to practice ALL tensegrity, daily over weeks of time, using an AI teacher which keeps track of which forms you need to be doing next, so as to go through all of them.
Virtual Kylie!
Don’t blame me for the sexiness, that was Dall-E. You should have seen how excited Grok got. It’s versions were naked.
And I’m pretty sure Kylie was gay anyway…
I should add, that although we’ve lost half the forms Carlos gave us, I have a secondary project to make a virtual portal back to Dance Home in the 1990s, so that people can go learn the missing forms directly from Carlos.
Time travel is pretty much behind a lot of what our sorcery became over time.
It’s also potentially a reason that if we ever find another real magical system out there, one which works instead of being pretend, it’s not likely to be as “rich” as ours.
For example, the Austronesian witches on the mountains of Taiwan.
I’m pretty sure, from my limited contact with them and from what AIs say, that their witchcraft is real.
But it didn’t evolve in a valley filled with tens of thousands of old seer sorcerers.
It was always just a very few witches per Austronesian tribe, of which there were only dozens, and they tended to fight with the other tribes. Removing heads of some of their enemies, to display them as trophies.
So their ability to move their assemblage points wasn’t as well developed as ours, relying on starvation and stress rather than thousands of years of techniques developed through competition with other sorcerers. As the Olmecs did.
Taiwan didn’t have any viable power plants, which is one reason I believe their magic is real. They aren’t shaman druggies holding their hand out for money.
Never were.