Electricity
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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Fire. The rest followed.
Interesting, my first thought was similar but different.
Clothing.
Now I have to go poke around the Internet trying to understand the history of both, which came first, and speculate about which made a bigger impact on our species.
edit:
Yep, it was fire. By like a lot. Both have pretty big ranges, but fire seems to be in the hundreds of thousands of years ago range, and clothing seems to be in the dozens of thousands of years.
I wonder which one came first, clothing or hairless skin?
Written language. It lets us speak to people across time.
I'm not sure about the greatest invention but the second greatest is sliced bread!
The ability to shape steel. Sounds basic but blacksmiths make the tools for everything else.
Sliced bread. Before sandwiches what was the point?
Delicious drippings, stews and gravies on hunks of bread.
The sandwich was a downgrade.
The printing press. It allowed us for the first time to share knowledge at a scale we only dreamed of.
Screw the running water and antibiotics. I don't need no machinery or amenities, give me cheese!
Computers are cool though
The Tamagotchi - for obvious reasons.
Spray cheese
Central air
Microwave. Being able to heat up a hot pocket in just minutes is legendary.
I believe argiculture and trade were massive parts of history
Literature, Writing, Written Word. If we couldn't document and share ideas, we'd be nowhere.
The time machine.
The wheel and the derivatives of the circular shape in general; they powered all human innovations from abstract mathematics to real life applications and everything in between.
Copper. Because without copper, most of the named things wouldn't be possible to create!
The microwave.
Can you imagine having to cook every night?
You know you can reheat things other ways, right?