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Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines - The Atlantic

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As search engines are radically reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration.

The most mysterious technological object on the planet should have been destroyed at least three times. First, the device made it through a violent shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. Then, it sat submerged in salt water on a sandy cliff 200 feet below the surface of the ocean for more than two millennia. After it was hauled back to dry land in the year 1901, the object was forgotten for nearly a year. A lump of corroded bronze and shredded wood, it was left to rot in an ordinary crate in the open courtyard of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. It should have disintegrated. It almos

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