Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-212.56.135.17-20160525143405/@comment-27565137-20160526000305

78.133.27.177 wrote: So it makes sense that they decided to not pass on their knowledge of technology, and only kept the most basic knowledge. But they were fighting a more advanced enemy. Mountain people captured, used, drugged and killed grounders. Yet the chipped commanders were not even able to come up with a solution to cure repears, this with the help of an AI that was meant to help the human race survive in space.

like 1st generation still had flashlights and stuff, but they didnt know how to create more stuff so by the 2nd generation that knowledge was lost But the commander has access to the AI chip + the memory of all past commanders. Knowledge was never lost nor forgotten but simply seems refused to be used.

Another thing that comes to mind is the something I already mentioned; the process of selecting the commander requires one with the night blood to kill all others with the night blood. Does this make sense for the AI when this can only function in a host that has night blood? If something happened to the commander days after the selection process is done then the AI has no host. How could the commanders/AI allow this selection process? 1. By that time all knowledge not passed from generation to generation would've been lost. So even if the Grounders wanted to use and maybe even fix the technology. The knowledge had been lost.

Look at the great pyramids. There's a bunch of theories about how they were built. But when put to the test, all architects come down to a simple answer "I can't figure it out how they did it"

2. Either way with the exception of Luna the night blood is extinguished. So the AI's are useless to the Grounders. Even the keeper of the flame thought that the flame itself was something mystical. Just comes to prove how little knowledge they possessed.

The only ones that can use the AI's are Skaikru. And most likely only Raven seeing she's the only tech wiz of the entire show.