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I’ll add some more: Language, standards, the internet, agriculture, glass, sunscreen, resilient rice, sterilization, human flight, spontaneous development of s

I’ll add some more: Language, standards, the internet, agriculture, glass, sunscreen, resilient rice, sterilization, human flight, spontaneous development of sentient life in the universe… When you think about it all, you start to appreciate how miraculous things actually are.

tzs 3y ago
Sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh water system, and public health.
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ETH_start 3y ago
Similar to language, money, which Nick Szabo—the person who first conceptualized a decentralized blockchain—speculates may have increased the carrying capacity of the environment ten fold and allowed humans to outcompete Neanderthals. https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/C...
MrYellowP 3y ago
Does language really count? It emerged as noises and refined over the years. It's not something anyone invented, or even discovered. It simply came to be all by itself, until humanity reached a point where it could be formalized/standardized (idk the proper term, I'm sure you get what I mean). Regardless ... people's ignorance is showing. Too many never think about the fact that people just 200-100 years ago would have considered modern technology magic. Imagine showing off to one of these people: Omfg you're speaking into a flat rectangle! Omfg it speaks back! Omfg it shows pictures! Omfg that box speaks! Omfg that box speaks and shows people! O M F G YOU GUYS FLY EVERY DAY??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, SYPHILIS ISN'T AN ISSUE ANYMORE??? AND THERE'S A PILL PREVENTING PREGNANCY ??????????? It's absolutely amazing.