Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:09 pm
If I recall correctly, a couple of the researchers made that point also.The other point that the narrator made consistently is that these people were technologically smart and sophisticated.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:25 pm
We like to think that we are so smart but, consider the relative difference between inventing the electric screw driver and the guy who first thought up the idea to have screws and screw drivers at all.
The former is derivative. The latter is innovative.
The former is derivative. The latter is innovative.
Ingenuity
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:41 pm
Min, not only were these people ingenious, but they invented things in an environment where they could easily wind up on some predator's dinner menu if they weren't careful. Talk about distraction!We like to think that we are so smart but, consider the relative difference between inventing the electric screw driver and the guy who first thought up the idea to have screws and screw drivers at all.
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:53 pm
Yeah, or think about a stone projectile point and the projectile at the tip of a bullet. Same concept, just improved.Minimalist wrote:We like to think that we are so smart but, consider the relative difference between inventing the electric screw driver and the guy who first thought up the idea to have screws and screw drivers at all.
The former is derivative. The latter is innovative.
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:57 pm
they invented things in an environment where they could easily wind up on some predator's dinner menu if they weren't careful
Necessity being the mother of invention!
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:56 pm
Nothing like motive, at it's extreme, to get the brain a ticking.Minimalist wrote:they invented things in an environment where they could easily wind up on some predator's dinner menu if they weren't careful
Necessity being the mother of invention!
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:30 pm
Have you ever considered that "laziness is the mother of invention"? I mean really, the hardest workin' guy doesn't slow down enough to think of an easy way to accomplish something. It takes a lazy guy to figure out how to get something or someone else to do it. 
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:38 pm
I don't know...back then the laziest guy probably starved to death.
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:39 pm
Minimalist wrote:I don't know...back then the laziest guy probably starved to death.