It's also that those discoveries brought turning-points in what we traditionally see as history (wars, epidemics, etc). Inventing CPUs, RAM, hard-disks, and spr

It's also that those discoveries brought turning-points in what we traditionally see as history (wars, epidemics, etc). Inventing CPUs, RAM, hard-disks, and spreadsheets, has probably been as influential, on human development, as inventing a couple of terrifying weapons; but they came staggered, as progressive refinements rather than "aha" moments, and they altered our parable in the background as a slow burn, rather than in a big flash...