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re: Which human being has made the biggest impact on human history?
Posted on 4/17/15 at 10:28 pm to CaptainsWafer
Posted on 4/17/15 at 10:28 pm to CaptainsWafer
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My gunpowder answer went unnoticed.
A good one, but Gutenberg changed the game. Only priests and few nobles could read at the time. The printing press changed it all. There would have been no Reformation without him.
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Posted on 4/17/15 at 10:30 pm to glassman
If he hadn't invented the printing press, assuming he really was first, someone else would have figured it out within a year
Posted on 4/17/15 at 10:56 pm to glassman
quote:The Chinese invented printing, so if you're going with that angle, it's whatever Chinese guy invented it.
A good one, but Gutenberg changed the game. Only priests and few nobles could read at the time. The printing press changed it all. There would have been no Reformation without him.
If you're going with Christianity or Islam, they owe their existence to Akhenaten, the Egyptian inventor of monotheism.
Da Vinci's personal hero was Archimedes. He invented the lever, the auger and calculus. His technology allowed humans to advance civilization more than anyone who had come before him.
Or Jack Tripper. Dude had three hot roommates. Aww yee.
This post was edited on 4/17/15 at 11:07 pm
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