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There is something inevitable about trying to explain one, new technology, like that of the microprocessor, in terms of another, older technology, like that of automotive mechanics. The reason is that new technology always builds on the old. It is possible for new technologies to be forgotten, like Roman architecture and civil engineering. But it is not possible to make progress in building churches or roads until that forgotten technology had been, slowly, painfully reconstructed. And then, the new must first live to learn side-by-side with the old on which it is based. In the history of European architecture at large it is far more typical to see a great romanesque structure finished off in gothic (and later barockized) than to find a nice pure example of any particular style, like, say, the Sainte Chapelle.
