Oh… yes, certainly.

[He nods, because yeah, actually, it is a pretty good distraction!]

In any event, the technology I was speaking of originated in the Allagan Empire, which spanned the entirety of the known world at its peak. Given its size, even though it is old enough that much of its knowledge has been lost to the ages, ruins and relics from it are not particularly uncommon, though the majority of them are comprised of devices called tomestones that store data on various subjects.