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Almost everything you see or use around you was invented at some point.

e.g. the following things were all invented:

- that a human dwelling has space between adjacent dwellings and/or eventually streets (straight streets came even later)

- punctuation and spaces between words (looking at you Ancient Greek)

- what word to use when answering the phone ("ahoy hoy" was one proposed option)

It really is true what Steve Jobs said (apropos given Larry Tesler worked at Apple):

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it.|



Demonstrably untrue, since humanity was made up of people who lived happily without those things and never even thought of them. Probably even laughed at them when they first appeared.




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