What do you think is the greatest man made invention?

[Ori]

There is a lot to pick from through history, I can't choose one at the moment.

What do you think it is?

 

[Feathers in Hair]

Whatever the one before sliced bread was.

Seriously? The printing press. (Or the Eastern version of it, which (if I remember correctly) came first.)

 

[Ryan2065]

The atom bomb...

No one will mess with us now! muahahahahaha

 

[Green Gaia]

I would go with the printing press too, since I'm a bibliophile.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

The alphabet.

 

[Lady Crimson]

the toilet....simply the best!

 

[Feathers in Hair]

The alphabet.

Oooo, good point! The printing press would be rather useless without that.

 

[Green Gaia]

Oooo, good point! The printing press would be rather useless without that.

We could've printed pictures.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

The alphabet.

Oooo, good point! The printing press would be rather useless without that.

Prior to the alphabet, hundreds and hundreds of pictographs/hieroglyphics were required to communicate the simplest of messages. Very few could read them, and fewer still could produce them. The alphabet was not only immensely more flexible, but equally more accessible. It essentially democritized written communication.

 

[kreeden]

I agree with Deut on this one . True we could have used other symbols , but the alphabet is much more flexible .

Not sure if I would say that it was mankind's greatest invention though ... Perhaps language ?

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Writing.( the making of intelligible marks)


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[Jayhawker Soule]

... the alphabet is much more flexible. Not sure if I would say that it was mankind's greatest invention though ... Perhaps language?

I would tend to classify language as an emergent capacity rather than an invention, but I really haven't given it that much thought.

 

[michel]

I have always understood it was the wheel.

 

[Cynic]

There is a lot to pick from through history, I can't choose one at the moment.

What do you think it is?

The ignore button.

 

[kreeden]

I would tend to classify language as an emergent capacity rather than an invention, but I really haven't given it that much thought.

Which is why I added the winking smilie Deut. I often find it hard to say that something is more important then another . So many factors , so many interconnections ...

 

[jewscout]

no way! best invention has to be the Furby!

 

[Feathers in Hair]

Take that back, JS! *makes a complicated 'warding-off' gesture*

Those things scare me oh- so- badly...

 

[michel]

I'll protect you Feathers!Knockout

 

[jewscout]

hehehe they aren't that scary Feathers...especially at 3 in the morning just cussing at it over and over again trying to get it to repeat you

 

[kreeden]

I train anti-Furby badgers ... I'll send you a couple Feathers .