What is the greatest invention of Mankind?
The Wheel, the written word, mathematics, use of fire or the micro wave oven?
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It's interesting how you define "language", with verbal language specifically being less significant than the preceding inventions that made survival and nutritional prerequisites for brain growth possible. Developing sign language instead of verbal language probably wouldn't have held humanity back much, and it might have even had some advantages: faster communication speed due to more possible variation, enhanced hand-eye coordination leading to better tool use, etc.
Posted 07 April 2010 - 11:29 AM
That's a meta-concept, not really an invention.
Of course if meta-concepts are allowed you could just say that the greatest invention of mankind is... invention!
Or that the greatest invention of mankind is... mankind itself!
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Edited by Mia K., 11 April 2010 - 06:46 PM.
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The Dunny.
Seriously, what would you do without one....
Posted 12 April 2010 - 06:29 PM
The Dunny.
Seriously, what would you do without one....
Have nano-bots that wrap themselves around your freely-excreted outputs just as they leave your body and discretely fly them to the nearest bio-plant for recycling?
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 10:56 PM
Why has no one said sliced bread yet?
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 06:41 PM
If you're going to go down that route how about we just re-engineer our bodies so that they are more efficient and produce less waste in general. Solar-powered people!
Why has no one said sliced bread yet?
Edited by Alex Libman, 13 April 2010 - 06:42 PM.
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The Dunny.
Seriously, what would you do without one....
Have nano-bots that wrap themselves around your freely-excreted outputs just as they leave your body and discretely fly them to the nearest bio-plant for recycling?
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