Egyptian Blue: The Color of Technology

Forget about Egyptian Blue and its techno-wonders, did you see the link to Mummy Brown?

http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brow...

Far more fascinating. tl;dr: for several hundred years, Europeans traded in Aegyptian mummies (real ones and various imitations thereof) first for apothecary medicine (ergo consumption), then as paint pigment. Horatio must be spinning in his grave ("there are more things,... etc.").

Reminds me of the color of the SGI Indy.[1]

1: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy

Now imagine how many techniques get lost on a daily basis because only a few people knew them and they left that workplace.

I thought this was going to be about how it seems like half of all consumer tech companies use a hue near Egyptian Blue for their logos or other primary colors.