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To date, what do you think is the greatest invention or discovery and why? (kbin.social)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by guyrocket@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is the computer. I continue to be amazed at what we can do with them.

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say the plow. Agriculture means your tribe get to spend less time hunting and gathering, but the plow means your tribe get a chance to become an empire

In this case I'm taking the word "greatest" more as "biggest/most impactful" and not necessarily "most good" but also I'm no anarcho-primitivist, idk...

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

In this case I'm taking the word "greatest" more as "biggest/most impactful" and not necessarily "most good"

Yeah that's what I meant, I agree with the topic of "it might be what started workers exploitation", but what I'm talking about is "it's an invention/discovery that was so powerful to shift the natural behaviour of a species". We're not even talking about antropology now, it's an etological impact and there haven't been many others in our history