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\\\"On the matter of automatic sliding doors, they\\\'re actually OlderThanYouThink: they were first used by the [[OlderThanFeudalism Ancient]] [[AncientEgypt Egyptians]]. Hand-operated, but in such a way that the people who went through the door couldn\\\'t see it. (just like the actual sliding doors on the StarTrek set). When the Greeks first saw this, they called it \\\'\\\'Techné\\\'\\\', deceit, because it was the UrExample of hidden technology. So Ancient Egyptian Sliding Doors are the TropeNamer for Technology.\\\"
Techné (τέχνη) does not mean deciet - it means \\\'art\\\', \\\'craft\\\', \\\'device\\\', or \\\'cunning\\\', and it\\\'s been traced to a proto-indo-european root meaning \\\'to fashion\\\' - you can check any decent etymological dictionary\\\'s entry on \\\'techno-\\\' to see this.
Given that this bit of the story about ancient egyptian sliding doors is incorrect, I\\\'m inclined to doubt the rest of it. It doesn\\\'t seem implausible that they could have doors like those described, but I\\\'d like to see some evidence for it.
Techné (τέχνη) does not mean deciet - it means \\\'art\\\', \\\'craft\\\', \\\'device\\\', or \\\'cunning\\\', and it\\\'s been traced to a proto-indo-european root meaning \\\'to fashion\\\' - you can check any decent etymological dictionary\\\'s entry on \\\'techno-\\\' to see this.
Given that this bit of the story about ancient egyptian sliding doors is incorrect, I\\\'m inclined to doubt the rest of it. It doesn\\\'t seem implausible that they could have doors like those described, but I\\\'d like to see some evidence for it.
