Technology update :[||||]:

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Digging to a depth of 1,000 meters in rural France last year,
archeologists found traces of copper wire dating back 1,000 years. The
French came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone
network centuries ago.

Not to be outdone by the French, English scientists dug to a depth of
2,000 meters. Shortly thereafter headlines in the U.K. newspapers read:
"English archeologists have found traces of 2,000-year-old fiber-optic
cable and have concluded that ancestors had an advanced high-tech
digital communications network a thousand years earlier than the
French."

One week later, Irish newspapers reported the following: "After digging
as deep as 5,000 meters in a Dublin marketplace, scientists found
absolutely nothing. They thus concluded that 5,000 years ago the Irish
were using wireless technology.

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