Homo Habilis
Apr. 16th, 2006 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI 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.
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.
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Date: 2006-04-16 11:55 am (UTC)I look round the room and it's full of stuff I don't understand. There's the computer, a quartz watch, a digital camera...
But it's not just the relatively sophisticated objects. Here's a plastic waste bin. Do I know how plastics are made? Of course not!