What is the most important human invention? Pic related
>>1162865
Either that or writing.
>inb4 wheel shitters
Fleshlight
>>1162865
Fire is not a human invention.
math
>>1162865
That's a discovery not invention
I'd say tools
>>1163062
>Writing
Maybe for historyfags.
>Wheel shitters
Eurasian nomads.
>>1162865
computer. i can't think of another invention that has/will so fundamentally transform(ed) human life (except maybe irrigation for enabling agriculturalist lifestyle?)
>humans invented fire
>>1162865
Firemaking is more a discovery.
>>1162865
That was given by based Prometheus though.
dildos
probably language somehow my family member
>>1163224
Nah the wheel was pretty useless. It's said that the Aztec civilization invented the wheel, but never used it for anything constructive. It was basically treated as a toy.
Agriculture.
>>1163094
this
answer is pottery btw
>>1163327
>Anything constructive
Because they didn't have horses.
>>1162865
Javascript
the stirrup
>>1163327
Its said that this poster engages in homosexual conduct with his peers.
>>1163224
Writing or at least record keeping is a MUST for empire or civs
>>1162865
Fire, spear, bow, animal domestication, farming, the city (early science and philosophy), metalworking, the scientific method, industrialization, modern science.
Pretty much every significant invention that was dependent on each other and lead to where we are now.
the Bayonet
>>1163331
This is the only real answer. Civilization can thrive without metalworking, wheels or writing. The Inca had an incredibly efficient and effective state verging on totalitarianism, and they didn't even have cities in the strict sense of the world.
Without agriculture though, the best we could hope for would be a few minor chiefdom like the Haida limited to only a handful of environments while the vast majority of mankind would remain in tiny bands.
Concrete.
So advanced that puts modern concrete to shame, and dumb people still can't accept that they invented it, so it has to be aliens.
>>1164149
This isn't 100% true.
Pozzolan concrete is more durable, but it doesn't have the same physical strength.
>>1164149
Definetively. Today it's the most produced material (in tonnage) that we have today.
>>1162865
Religion
>>1164302
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_invention
>>1163105
>math
>invented
Its been there the whole time, we discovered mathematical properties, we did not invent it.
Agricultural techniques.
>>1163226
/thread.
The computer is an ur-technology, a device which can theoretically replicate the function of any other device. The invention of electronic information processing is the most important technical development in history.
>>1162865
Germ theory.
>>1163331
winrar
>>1164622
Math is a method of modelling the properties of the universe, it is not those properties. Like how the word "wood" is not the object wood.
>>1164622
desu you can say that about most things
we didnt invent the way things work when we put them together in your computer, it's physical laws that allow you to browse 4chan (^:
>>1162865
Metalworking
Lying.
This is a chicken-egg question
Agriculture is important, but could it exist without the invention of fences? Could it exist before the invention of tools? Etc.
So my vite goes to the first invention, pointy stick
>>1163173
"tools" is everything from a rock to the large hadron collider
>>1164622
>semantics
you know what he meant
chastise him for being inarticulate, not for being "wrong"
Black powder. At least the best for Western civilization, also brought a lot of misery to it, but made it strive and position itself as the leaders of the world. Sails are a close second.
>>1164622
Math is the philosophy of relationships between values. It exists nowhere except in our heads
>>1163327
>It was basically treated as a toy.
Toys seem to be proto-wheel behavior. I think I remember reading how the proto-indo-europeans also seems to have wheels in their toys before their is any evidence of them using them. Also wheels are useful as shit and a pretty amazing invention as you have to work out things like axles at the same time as you figure out round things are useful for all kinds of load bearing and force transfers so fuck you.
fire is right up there with electricity, water, wood, and stone as the best human inventions
>>1165452
All of which are important
>>1165512
Yeah, but they hardly count a single invention
>>1163386
>being a horsefucker
Gonna throw a wild one out there
Penicillin
Writing, so we could pass ideas on accurately to our descendants long after we're gone.
Mathematics, so we had a way to describe the way things work and to work with those things abstractly.
Agriculture, so we could settle down and specialize in different tasks.
I think those three things are the most important.
>>1165522
Oooo that's good.
>>1163226
>either this or the internet tbqh
>>1165522
I'll give another wild one:
Anesthetics.
How about Farming?
>>1162865
Writing.
>>1163226
For consumers, and average Joe - computers done more harm than good - this is backed up by hundreds of studies.
Language
Anime
>>1166363
fuck off
Monogamy
Agriculture, nothing else is worth shit if you don't have enough food to keep that fat brain of yours studying things.
>>1162865
The combustion engine
Everything we use and care about in modern society has its roots from the combustion engine
If all combustion engines broke at once there would be no food, no mining, no drlling, no transport of goods or people, no flight, the list goes on
>>1163386
Cantered saddle more important desu
There are many that were game changers:
>weaving (fabric is useful as fuck)
>plastics (best modern invention by far together with penicillin)
>controlled fermentation (beer, bread, chocolate, sauerkraut)
>greenhouses (allowed us to have agriculture in winter)
>ovens (baking is based)
>caravel (allowed us to navigate against the wind)
>social contracts (the base of law and society)
>domestication (imagine a world without doggos)
>>1162865
you think fire has been invented by humans ?
whow ....
whow ....
>>1166477
You can replace them with electrical engines nowadays.
Memes.
Maybe not the best invention yet but just wait some years and you will see.
zyklon-b
>>1165445
only answer, tbqh
>>1165990
i think you mean
A E S T H E T I C S
>Agriculture
>Language
>Sharp sticks and stones
Pick one.
