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Re: What is the most benefitial technological advance ever created?
Maybe the "most beneficial invention" award should go to whichever of our primate ancestors was the first to use a rock to bang a chip loose from another rock, and then notice that the sharp edge just created could be used to cut things. He or she had just invented machining and made the first tool.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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