Homo Habilis

[poliphilo]

I press a button. Morgan Freeman appears in front of me and says, "Shit". It's raining where he is. I press another button. He disappears.

I take this power for granted, but I don't have a clue how it works.

If our technology were to disappear tomorrow I wouldn't be able to do a thing to get it back. I don't even know how to smelt metal.

Maybe I'd have the wherewithal to go make myself a hand-axe, though I understand there's quite an art to knapping flint.

Left to my own devices I belong in the stone age- if that.

I have about as much aptitude for tool-making as a chimpanzee.

Comments

Re: I have...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

What it shows us is that civilization was/is inevitable, I think. ;)

I make stuff... compulsively, so my response was immediate and instinctive. The "for a price" part came a little slower but still... it's no mystery how free enterprise got born. Is it?

Re: I have...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You've got something I want. We trade. Next thing we build a market place to facilitate the transaction...

Yup, I see what you mean.