The Origins of Technology | Mark Thomas | TEDxUCL

[@The22on]

So few views? I found this lecture fascinating. I always thought that the drivers for technology were: walking upright, eye-hand interaction driving bigger brains, agriculture and staying in one place long enough to do creative things, writing and storage of information, etc. I never thought that living in a big enough group so that there were people to copy from was a key element. Yuval Harari says that humans are the only species that can cooperate in huge groups where not many people know other people personally. That is easy to understand. It ties in with this video idea of critical mass in population. Bottom line for me? I won't be so afraid to copy from others! lol Great lecture. By the way, I can't remember who said this, but I recall someone either won a prize or made a breakthrough at a corporation. The prize/winner said, "I knew that if I got enough bright people together that someone would remember how a problem like the one we faced was solved in the past."

[@DaxenSweed]

Yowsers! Just realised why actors go to LA, programmers go to silicon valley. Why we go to university and study the same things as our classmates and teachers. We go to the group within the group to learn, copy, create. Mind blown.

[@gives_bad_advice]

Ants cooperate, no?

[@Bistduwach1]

Very inspiring! Lets Connect!

[@soondusrashed9843]

intresting

[@LoveLaughLive1]

1 TRILLION YEARS AGO 😂

[@Star-ngn]

Technology started from Africa