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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
How many young people today cannot imagine when we did not have DVDs and CDs or cell phones etc. and this has been only over 30 years.
I guess in that way, something like such a metallurgical process could vanish, just as we have lost so many aspects of everyday life several decades ago.
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Jim, it's not a very appropriate comparison

You draw an analogy between the modern rapidly developing society of the 21st century and the archaic society of the 19th century.
I will answer you another analogy
You say that young people do not know in the US that such a carburetor, but I think in less developed countries, children know what a carburetor. Moreover, it seems to me that in the patriarchal lands in the US (somewhere in backwoods Kentucky) children will also know what a carburetor