Shoes.
111 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 13 Jul 2023
Perhaps not so much discovered as designed;
The Gutenberg press in the 1400s - it took information out of the hands of a minority and allowed it to be shared with more people; it drove improvements in literacy and allowed the spread of knowledge and information through time and across geography.
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152 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 13 Jul 2023
Indoor plumbing.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 13 Jul 2023
Bows and arrows. I think going from melee weapons to ranged weapons was a big deal to evolve humans from prey to apex predators.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @llamabyte 13 Jul 2023
A.C and friges.
Although off grid homesteads without them, that have their foods based around local agriculture and preserves are super cozy.
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @crrdlx 13 Jul 2023
Planting a seed in the ground to grow food kinda matters.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @f6287b82CC84bcbd 18 Jul 2023
Fire.
Cannabis / Hemp.
Printing Press.
Paper money (before human greed messed that up)
Electricity.
Computers.
The internet.
Nostr.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 14 Jul 2023
Law, language and blunts.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 13 Jul 2023
Nuclear Power.
Fusion is coming, especially since NIF managed to prove it.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @MathiuJ 13 Jul 2023
The Haber-Bosch process. It converts hydrogen and nitrogen into ammonia, allowing the mass production of ammonia-based fertilizer that helps the world feed the population. Without it, food production for the world population would not be possible.
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66 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 13 Jul 2023
The internet.
Also I hate shoes! Sandal maxi.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 13 Jul 2023
im in the market. do you recommend a certain pair for walking lighter hikes?
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Jul 2023
I've been wearing Shammas for 7+ years. I prefer the Warriors because the soles are so thin, but I usually buy Cruzers which are a little thicker and last about 50% longer (I walk ~4 miles everyday). I also get my Shammas custom made (they do this for free) because my toes are longer than average.
There's a bunch of companies making this kind of sandal now. Earth Runners are probably one of the more popular brands. They ground you with metal thread and a copper plug - which is supposed to be more like walking barefoot from an electrical charge perspective.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 13 Jul 2023
The internet is great... but something happened some time between the early/mid 2000s and now which has made it a lot crappier. And I'm trying to figure out what is the technology that made it crappier.
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xIlmari 15 Jul 2023
Fire, agriculture, writing, wheel, gunpowder, printing press, steam engine, internal combustion engine, electricity, computer.
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 13 Jul 2023
Glass.
A few points from one of my favorite books:
- Mirrors (played a role in enabling the renaissance, allowed people to see a clear reflection of themselves and reality)
- Telescopes (enabled us to understand the cosmos and earth’s relationship to it)
- Glasses (enabled most Europeans to read once the printing press was discovered)
- Glass fibers (crucial for fiber-optic cables and the internet today)
- Microscopes (enabling humans to study bacteria, and radically improve health standards)
- And then all the obvious use cases like windows, device screens, skyscrapers
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 13 Jul 2023
Money is right up there with language, fire, and agriculture. Prices are the only way to usefully allocate resources across the entire world.
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @sancristrader 13 Jul 2023
Birth control pill
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @byzantine 13 Jul 2023
antibiotics, coal oil and nuclear energy, steel, the microscope, the telescope, the microchip, the automobile
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiracDelta 13 Jul 2023
Spoken language, written language, and clocks are the only three comparable inventions/discoveries.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 13 Jul 2023
Fire
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 13 Jul 2023
Probably whatever the military industrial complex is keeping from us
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @chovyfu 13 Jul 2023
ai is a pretty big deal
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 13 Jul 2023
Alternating Current (electricity)
Allows transmission of enormous energy over long distances using just a wire and some step-up/down transformers.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @el_zonte 14 Jul 2023
Public Key Cryptography
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