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What, in your opinion, is the greatest invention in human history?

Anything from the hand-axe to the quantum computer.

Jnei 8 Apr 20
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Gas powered ice auger, you would think so also if you ever used the manual labor ice auger.

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Language. It led to other developments.

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Silicon chip

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Transistor

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Wow, that's a good question, I need to think about it.

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CRISPR

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Hedy Lamarr's radio guidence system. Without it we wouldn't have spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology used in current phones.

Gohan Level 7 Apr 20, 2018
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Electricity. Without it you'd have no modern society.

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Deliberative Thought ie Why?, The first questions. Without that, no stone-axe or flint knives. Other animals use objects as tools. However there is a tremendous gulf between a stone being used like an axe and a stone deliberately shaped into even the most primative axe. The sheer number of perceptual and cognitive efforts required is staggering. I know it is difficult for most people to wrap their heads around, but you need thought tools for thought experiments, and thought experiments are prerequisites for effecting change in one's ecology socially and materially.

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Electricity.

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The wheel.

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The Plastic Lawn Flamingo.

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Air conditioning

gater Level 7 Apr 20, 2018
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Computers/internet. It makes the world very small.

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The bicameral mind

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Alternating Current- Electricity it lights the world and allows a much greater life!

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I'd vote for the ability to make fire, when and where it was needed; then there's flint knapping, the beginnings of Science, investigating the 'grain in the stone.'

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Symbolic representation of sound, ie... letters

Etre Level 7 Apr 21, 2018
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Memes

lol

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The neocortex, invented by Mother Nature, seems to have started our rise as dominant species on the Earth, and gave us the capacity for doing both art and science.

Which was not a human invention.

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