What is the most badass technology developed by humans?
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Writing. Hands down. Outsourcing memory since the beginning of history.
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You have a point. Without writing, we wouldn't have got very far with everything else.JOZeldenrust wrote:Writing. Hands down. Outsourcing memory since the beginning of history.
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Why writing? Why not verbal language?
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Because it's much harder to record and access complex ideas in verbal language.The Mad Hatter wrote:Why writing? Why not verbal language?
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And thence came religion. Maybe.Pappa wrote:Because it's much harder to record and access complex ideas in verbal language.The Mad Hatter wrote:Why writing? Why not verbal language?
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Stephen Fry makes a very good case for printing as our greatest advancement in his documentary about Gutenberg - well worth hunting for on Youtube or elsewhere if you haven't seen it.
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
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Yorkshire pudding you morons. 
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Agriculture. There is a direct line from the first farmer to the first person with sufficient leisure time to ask what it tastes like, seriously, on a forum.
Re: What is the most badass technology developed by humans?
But without verbal language there was no exchange of ideas at all.Pappa wrote:Because it's much harder to record and access complex ideas in verbal language.The Mad Hatter wrote:Why writing? Why not verbal language?
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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Reasonably priced personal jet packs.
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Re: What is the most badass technology developed by humans?
Language isn't really a technologyThe Mad Hatter wrote:But without verbal language there was no exchange of ideas at all.Pappa wrote:Because it's much harder to record and access complex ideas in verbal language.The Mad Hatter wrote:Why writing? Why not verbal language?
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Neither is writing.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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Re: What is the most badass technology developed by humans?
Electronics. Almost everything we do today involves electronics. I recently saw lawnmowers with onboard computer control.
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Re: What is the most badass technology developed by humans?
Computers. In a couple decades, they'll be smarter than we are.
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