159

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by guyrocket@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

116 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Mine is the computer. I continue to be amazed at what we can do with them.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] HydraulicMonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

My vote is definitely for fire. Learning to first contain and sustain, then how to create fire. Everything else follows on from that.

Cooking food probably started us down a path to become as intelligent as we are today.

And the light allowed us to have free time at night to try new ideas.

And the warmth allowed us to spread out of Africa.

this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024

159 points (100.0% liked)

Asklemmy

44128 readers

352 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS