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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Bell's photo phone relied on reflection of analog wave forms. A very different approach from modern fiber optics. Fiber optics were considered more of an illumination technology than a data transmission technology. Bell was probably the first to try using the medium but it proved to be a failure and no one else used it that way for an other 70 years.
Yet we continue to take things apart we don't understand and learn from them. If man maintained the belief you just tossed out, we never would have learned about anatomy or internal medicine. We learned about the human body by taking it apart, even when it was verboten by both the church and state. It's what we do. We're curious and we need to know how things work.
If you did send that iPhone back 1000 years there certainly is something that people would learn from it. Much of it would be alien to them, but they would recognize certain components and the refinements in the product. It would drive innovation in trying to replicate such craftsmanship and improve the products of that timeframe. People would learn from it, but learn only that which their context would allow them to understand.
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What would the 1000 year old society learn from the iPhone that could be immediately applied in the next 5-10 years as you are suggesting with the diode and fiber.
Before we continue down the fiber optics path do you sincerely believe that fiber optics were a result of the application of technology learned from alien craft?