Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life is composed of different inventions.
Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.
For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?