I found this article fascinating, not least since - coincidentally - it's a conversation I've been having with several family members and friends of late. The question? What have been humankind's greatest inventions? The ones that really changed the course of human history... Well, in this Independent newspaper feature, you'll get 101 answers to that question. Perhaps they will correspond with your own choices, perhaps they won't, but it sure makes for an interesting read. And it's definitely refreshing to have someone document some of the positive contributions we humans have made to the planet ...
Saturday, November 3, 2007
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A goodly list - all good news here. Being a kept man - kept in the kitchen most of the time - I'd like to suggest a couple of mundane gagets that may not have not changed my life, but have certainly make it easier (in the kitchen). Imagine life without scissors or a cheese grater.
If you've ever spent much time without a cheese grater you will understand Pascal's sentiment: "little things console us because little things afflict us".
I've revised my decision, on the grounds of being too indulgent, to make a case for the implement (from The Pound Shop) for taking the stones from cherries.
Well, quite. The ability of such gadgets to reduce women's 'kitchen time' and increase their freedom is legendary - on aggregate, perhaps as important to the feminist cause as other inventions cited in the article, such as the contraceptive pill. However, it seems that now such gadgets are freeing 21st Century (New) Man too! The course of history indeed... E
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