Could the wheel and fire be considered the Adam and Eve of technology's Genesis origin myth? Or are there other root node candidates?
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technically wooden tools and fire would be the adam and eve of techne
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pen & sword (crude versions of each - sharp stick & etching stone)
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in different ways, I'd suggest either abstract speech, or the plow, as root nodes.
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Adam as fire and Eve as agriculture seem like good metaphors. Wheel came later
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Stone tools: predate wheel. Spears, arrows possibly helped to develop language, motor skills. m.rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org//content/367/1
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The 'thought narrator/internal voice' and language seem likely candidates.
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In James Burke's "Connections", he make a case for the Plow. Surplus food means some can become innovators instead of farmers.









