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Technological regression is an event opposite to that of technological advance. The event is known for the loss of technical knowledge, resources and tools, consequentially leading to a drawback to an era preceding when this same knowledge, resources and tools were discovered or learned.

=Causes and Effects=

Technological regression is not an uncommon event, and is often associated with a major social-economic decline, a shortage of a specific resource which drove the affected technology (Such as oil or electricity), or a cataclysmic event, such as a natural disaster. Other causes also include intentional destruction of knowledge or resources, or a theft of a specific knowledge or resource without there ever being a repository or replacement for this eventuality.

As an effect, gradual decline in the use and commerce of a supposed knowledge, resource or tool starts taking place, and adaptability to a more antiquated or preceeding use is made up to compensate for it's loss. In some events, the knowledge, resource or tool which was once frequently used eventually becomes a rare, precious commodity, mostly incompatible with the new setting in which an individual or society has now adapted to, and does not cause such a major effect as it once did when it was first discovered. In others, an alternative means is discovered that mostly or entirely compensates the loss of the previous technology.