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Clothes, spears and rocks are technology. Ready to go hunting bare handed & naked? It all started because we have opposing thumbs. We could pick up a rock or a stick and do something with it. This forced us to start thinking and one thing lead to the next.
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I MISS SARAH
“In Trump We Trust.” Right????
SOMEBODY please tell TRH that Netanyahu NEVER said "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
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I get a kick out of scientists who go crazy with excitement if a monkey picks up a stick to poke in an ant hill. They make a big deal out of the monkey 'using tools'...after they drive to work in a Toyota and write up all the test results on a computer connected to the internet.
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I poke at things with a stick, and I'm not a monkey ... or a scientist.
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I guess it depends on your definition of technology. Those diesel engines you mention are certainly technology. All the fertilizers, pesticides, and even those "practices" you mention are technologies developed, often, in our universities. In the last 110 years we've gone from it taking 30% of the population to feed this country, to 2% feeding it 10 times over.
The modern American farmer is an incredible marvel of modern innovation. This is the real technological innovation that has allowed the world's population to explode. Specifically the development of synthetic fertilizers in the late 1800's and early 1900's, most of which was done in Germany, the UK, and the Nordic countries, not the U.S. We wouldn't have 7 billion people on the planet now if it weren't for chemical fertilizers, our population would be much lower and a lot more people would be concentrating their labors on food production to feed the population. Chemical fertilizers allowed a lot smaller number of people to produce enough food to feed the entire population, allowing the population numbers to grow and people to move off the farm & concentrate their labors on making other things, things and technologies that led to the world we have today. Without the development of fertilizer, technology wouldn't have been able to develop nearly as far as it has. Whether you view that as good or bad is debatable. So if you really want to point to one development that contributed the most to the modern technological world we live in, that's the invention of chemical fertilizers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fertilizer
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Campfire Kahuna
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Probably the single largest jump in tech came from the harnessing of electricity. It's not just a light switch. It's industry, automotive, electronics, medicine, communication, science, entertainment. It's hard to think of anything in the last few hundred years that doesn't require electricity.
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wacky on the junk
tis evident some are already there
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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I poke at things with a stick, and I'm not a monkey ... or a scientist. ok I'm following you on the scientist part......  jk, have a great day! 
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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