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Fascinating discussion of the difference between our "inventor" mindset, where we are interested in WHO invented something, vs the AE mindset in which **the invention** itself was the point of interest -- didn't matter who came up with it.
This is what made the Egyptians the Japanese of their day. They didn't invent much, but they vastly improved on everybody else stuff.
— Jan 18, 2026 12:31AM
This is what made the Egyptians the Japanese of their day. They didn't invent much, but they vastly improved on everybody else stuff.
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"To take another recent example of socially determined trajectories in technology, the 20th-century dominance of the gasoline-powered car, as opposed to electrically powered vehicles, can be seen to have its origins not in decisions made on the basis of pure efficiency but in the economics of early 20th-century gender relations – thus women drivers clearly preferred electric cars, but it was primarily men...
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I think the inventor is very important 'cause no one would be able to improve anything if there isn't an invention to begin with. Though improving can be very difficult so I also get that.
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Mika wrote: "I think the inventor is very important 'cause no one would be able to improve anything if there isn't an invention to begin with. Though improving can be very difficult so I also get that."This is talking about crediting one individual person/company with a patent like we do today. This shoe was created by Nike. That car by BMW. Hans Hansfeld invented this pen.
No ancient art or buildings or technology etc was "signed" because the person(s) who created it wasn't important for the culture, the important thing was that it EXISTED. That someone somewhere created it.
It was of no interest that Hans Hansfeld invented this pen, but that this pen was invented.
