Some human inventions are not strictly necessary from a philosophical perspective, but are nonetheless virtually inevitable as civilization grows and develops nearly as a law of nature.
Among these are:
- fire
- the wheel
- levers and simple machines
- money (abstracted trade)
- written language
- ledgers
- cryptography
- telecommunication
- digital records
- cryptographic digital ledger
That last one is somewhat hard to justify for the uninitiated, but once you know, it is hard to think of it as anything other than inevitable.
James Lewis
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2024-07-11 18:44:37
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