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Rick Holcombe Special user 624 Posts |
What one thing had the biggest influence on the evolution/de-evolution of society?
Not thinking about "discoveries" like fire or electricity, but how man harnessed something and made something out of it. My vote goes to the printing press. All of the sudden ideas could be distributed in mass and knowledge built upon knowledge across borders, across languages. Look what it did for Christianity for example. |
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Ray Tupper. Special user NG16. 749 Posts |
The day after pill, condoms, and guns....In reverse order.
What do we want?
A cure for tourettes! When do we want it? C*nt! |
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Rick Holcombe Special user 624 Posts |
These could go either way I guess; for the benefit or detriment of mankind that is.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
The mirror.
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Rick Holcombe Special user 624 Posts |
Good one.
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
White Castle hamburgers.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
The wheel.
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Rick Holcombe Special user 624 Posts |
A wheel is worth nothing without an axel and chassis.
At conception it was probably just a few logs under a huge load. |
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Rick Holcombe Special user 624 Posts |
What's burger without bread?
Ahhhh bread; a beautiful thing. |
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
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On Oct 27, 2014, Rick Holcombe wrote: Which changed the world in the most sweeping of ways for man. Your printing press is pointless without language and ideas to spread. What's your point? Come to think of it, language might be the top invention ever. |
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Rick Holcombe Special user 624 Posts |
My point is the printing press was a vehicle for language. Just like a wheel needs a vehicle to become useful. At the very basic level a one wheeled vehicle like a wheel barrow has an axel and a chassis to make the wheel actually useful.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
You got it 180 degrees backwards. No wheel, no axels, no vehicles. No language, no printing press. Language was doing so much more so importantly without the printing press. If anything, the printing press has cheapened language, like any mass production eventually does.
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Rick Holcombe Special user 624 Posts |
I contest Tom. Aside from your other points, more fundamentally a printing press couldn't even exist without wheels/gears and axels to operate it.
With further thought, what about a lever? Probably the precursor to the wheel. |
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
The electric guitar.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
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On Oct 27, 2014, Rick Holcombe wrote: So the wheel trumps the printing because it begat even that. Thank you. I'd put electric guitar second. You can't have it without wheels (knobs, tuning pegs) |
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magicfish Inner circle 7004 Posts |
The spring. Hands down.
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Rick Holcombe Special user 624 Posts |
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On Oct 27, 2014, Tom Cutts wrote: Which brings up another invention... music You don't need wheels to create a beat or even language for a melody. |
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
Ahhhh, but music is a language. It's a language of rhythm"!
Check and mate! |
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JoeJoe Inner circle Myrtle Beach 1915 Posts |
The wheel is one of six simple machines, and every mechanical device you have ever used in your entire life (including the printing press) is a combination of these six simple machines to become "compound machines". My upcoming "Super Spinner with Penny Reel Technology" DVD is a combination of all six of these machines into one simple easy to use thread device.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine -JoeJoe
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
God.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
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