I wonder if it's possible to narrow down the one single most valuable invention in the world...I don't mean ten pivotal inventions, just one. I'd not want that job. I'd have to say that the printing press would be a contender. I mean, if we strip away all the inventions that we can do without...The car, internet end so on...Would the printing press be the one? (I say, do without as we can live without cars and internet etc*. ) Hmm, I wonder.
The wheel, the printing press...What would it be?
Of course the world can't, or won't, live without all it's inventions...Although, it's doing a pretty good job rendering the printing press redundant.
Thanks for this cool response mate, it's much appreciated.
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The wheel may be more important not sure, they both have had a very big big impact,
I agree...It's mindboggling to think of a world without either.
The fact that it's redundant now shouldn't take an iota away from it's total impact. That would be like taking edged weapons out of warfare because the guns are better. Entire outcomes would have been different.
In that competition? I go to steel. The most important thing we humans did in our history. Not the best maybe, but so much of our history rests on it...
Redundancy shouldn't mean irrelevancy...But we live in a world/society where what we have never seems good enough...Everyone lamenting what they have and wishing for something better...When what we have may be the best it ever gets. Ok, advances in technology aside.
You're right too...So many things we don't seem to value now had massive impacts upon human beings. Well said.