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Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago

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273 points geox | 1 comments | 17 Jun 24 21:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pimpampum ◴[18 Jun 24 10:08 UTC] No.40715902[source]▶
My guess is language emergence allows to teach and "accumulate" knowledge in cultures.
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pizzafeelsright ◴[18 Jun 24 21:32 UTC] No.40722351[source]▶
Language transmission for sure. The Tower of Babel slowed technology considerably and by design.
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EasyMark ◴[19 Jun 24 06:01 UTC] No.40725290[source]▶
The Tower of Babel?
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1. pizzafeelsright ◴[19 Jun 24 14:58 UTC] No.40728928[source]▶
Genesis 11 in the Bible.

Men decide to build a tower to Heaven. God isn't having that so he scrambles every language so the workers can't communicate with each other. They put down their tools and migrate to other locations around the globe.