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RE: What, in your opinion, is the most momentous moment in the history of human existence, and why?
In my opinion, the greatest moments of human history occurred in unrecorded history in the paleolithic era in several geographic locations independent of each other. Those include the inventions of fire, agriculture and the wheel.The Greatest moment of recorded history should be invention of the printing machine. Prior to it distribution of knowledge was a slow process so genesis of a new knowledge was a rare event. As knowledge spread the production and economy became knowledge based rather than material/ land based making conventional warfare redundant in developed areas. Now the wars are limited to areas with material based wealth.
So ultimately the printing machine made the world a more peaceful and wealthy comfortable place
Thanks for your erudite thoughts on the matter, @seasam119. If you had explained why the invention of printing machine is considered a greater moment than the advent of internet, the discussion would have been much more interesting.
yeah Internet also greatly increased the rate of distribution of knowledge. but it is also a result of the scientific revolution which is in debt to the printing machine. It is really difficult to measure both and decide which is the greatest. But because the internet wouldn't have happened if it werent for the printing machine I rate the printing machine higher.
Logical reasoning. Thanks for the great input, @seasam119.