polymathwannabe comments on Innovation's low-hanging fruits: on the demand or supply sides? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 26 February 2014 03:20:26AM *  0 points [-]

Mi big list would include more items, such as (but not limited to):

Domestication of fire (it should be on the flag of the future One World State)

Domestication of food (i.e. agriculture/cattle raising), from which comes the next item:

Cities (terribly underrated)

Writing (this alone increased a thousandfold the pace of cultural evolution as compared to Neolithic times; only the Internet starts to barely compare)

Legal systems/human rights (a.k.a. what prevents you from smashing your neighbor's head to take his wife)

Contraception (especially the pill)