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From Stone to Silicon
Call in for audio:
888-299-4099Verbal passcode: VR66137
*1 to ask a question# to cancel question
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From Stone to Silicon
The 25 Most Important Innovations
Lawrence A. HusickCo-Director, Wachman Center
Program on Teaching Innovation
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innovation |ˌinəˈvā sh ən|noun
the process of making changes,
esp. by introducing valuable new
methods, ideas, or products;
the new method, idea or process, itself.
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Not Just Tools and Toys
Innovations may be inventions, but they may also be:
Theories, beliefs, organizational methods, processes, discoveries…
In short, new value-creation mechanisms.
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Methodology
This is only one of many ways of looking at the history of innovation
Rank = impact (good or bad) on human life x total number of lives affected
There is no requirement that those whose lives are affected even know about the innovation, much less how it works!
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Why the Bias to Newer Stuff ?
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Disclaimer
What follows is all opinion. It is neither right nor wrong. Your list may, and should differ in both content and order.
What matters is that you think about your own list, and that you have reasoned arguments for the ways that it differs from this one.
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The List
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Innovation #25…
Relativity and Quantum Mechanics (1912)
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Innovation #24…
Electromagnetism (1820)
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Innovation #23…
Evolution and Natural Selection (1859)
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Innovation #22…
Steam Power
Papin (1690)
Savery (1702)
Newcomen (1712)
Watt (1765)
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Innovation #21…
Water Power (240 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #20…
Science (Natural Philosophy)
Study of Nature
Use of Scientific Method
Formal Systems(Mathematics, logic, statistics, calculus, place value, zero)
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Innovation #19…
Moveable TypePrinting Press (1040)
Gutenberg (1436)
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Innovation #18…
Fossil Fuels
Coal (1,000 b.c.e.)
Natural Gas (1859 - first well - Ohio)
Petroleum (1859 - first well - Penna.)
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Innovation #17…
Specialization of labor
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Innovation #16…
Paper (105)
Bagdhad (793)
Al Andalus (1150)
Sicily (1154)
France (1189)
Wood pulp (16th Cent.)
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Innovation #15…
Wheel and Axle (3,200 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #14…
Formal Law Codes
Code of Hammurabi (1780 b.c.e.)
Book of the Dead (1800 b.c.e.)
Ten Commandments (922-722 b.c.e.)
Twelve Tables (449 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #13…
Money
Sumerian (3,000 b.c.e.)
Lydian Coins (700 b.c.e.)
Chinese Paper Money (618)
Fiat and Credit Currency
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Innovation #12…
God(s)/Religions (social institution)
Social cohesion (in and out group)
Gives priestly class super-authority
Shapes behavior
Prescriptive (thou shalt/not)
Motivational (promise of afterlife)
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Innovation #12…
Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov:
- "Damn it all, what wouldn't I do to the man who first invented God!"
- "There would have been no civilizationif they hadn't invented God."
- “Wouldn’t there have been, without God?”
- “No. And there would have been no brandy either.”
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Innovation #11…
Chinese Cuneiform
From pictographs to…
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Innovation #11…
Alphabetic Script (1,800 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #11…
Alphabetic Script (1,800 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #10…
Food Preservation (10,000 b.c.e.)
Drying, freeze drying
Salting, spicing
Fermenting
Dry Storage
Pickling
Heating, smoking
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Innovation #9…
Metallurgy
Copper, Silver, Gold (4,400 b.c.e.)
Bronze (alloy with tin) (4,000 b.c.e.)(3,300-1,200 b.c.e. Is the Bronze Age)
Iron (2,500 b.c.e) (1,200-1,000 b.c.e. Is the Iron Age)
Steel (alloy with carbon) (400 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #9…
Asia Minor Staff HeadpieceCopper Age
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Innovation #9…
Mask of AgamemnonLate Bronze Age
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Innovation #9…
Korean DaggerEarly Iron Age
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Innovation #8…
Ceramics and Pottery
Clay vessels for cooking (prehistory)
Earliest fired clay pots (10,500 b.c.e.)
Earthenware, stoneware, porcelain
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Innovation #8…
Syria, 6,600 b.c.e.
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Innovation #7…Farming
Domestication of animals (15,000 b.c.e.)
Domestication of plants (10,000 b.c.e.)
Hydraulic agriculture (5,000 b.c.e.)
Plow (scratch 6,000 b.c.e./heavy 100 b.c.e)
Crop rotation (700)
Chemical fertilizer (1660)
Nitrate fertilizer synthesis (1913)
Green revolution (1961)
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Innovation #7a…
Domestication of Animals
Dog (15,000 b.c.e.)
Sheep (11,000 b.c.e.)
Goat (10,000 b.c.e.)
Pig (9,000 b.c.e.)
Cow (8,000 b.c.e.)
Chicken (6,000 b.c.e)
Horse (5,000 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #7b…
Domestication of Plants
Bottle Gourd (10,000 b.c.e.)
Wheat (9,800 b.c.e.)
Barley, Peas, chickpeas, beans, flax,bitter vetch (8,500 b.c.e.)
Sesame, eggplant (7,000 b.c.e.)
Cotton, rice (4,000 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #6…
Clothing (500,000-100,000 b.c.e.)
Sewing needles (30,000 b.c.e.)
Cloth (3,400 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #6…
Typical stone age dress
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Innovation #6…
Typical stone age dress
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Innovation #6…
Actual stone ageDress (20,000 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #6…
Actual copper agedress for AlpineEurope (3,300 b.c.e.)
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Innovation #5…
Symbolic Communication(32,000 b.c.e.)
Lascaux, France
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Innovation #5…
Symbolic Communication(3,300 b.c.e.)
Egypt
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Innovation #5…
Symbolic Communication(3,000 b.c.e.)
Sumer
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Innovation #4…Lever Simple Machine
Plow, hammer, paddle, atlatl, bow
"Πα βω και χαριστιωνι ταν γαν κινησω πασαν." ("Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.")
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Innovation #3…
Inclined Plane Simple Machine
Blades, wedges, ramps, chutes, slides, screws
Olduwan Chopper Cores(1.9 million years old)
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Innovation #3…
Inclined Plane Simple Machine
Blades, wedges, ramps, chutes, slides, screws
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Innovation #2…
Taming of Fire
Preservation of found fire
Fire starting technologies
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Innovation #2…
Taming of Fire
Fire Plow
Fire Drill
Smudge bundle
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Innovation #1…Spoken Language (semantic, syntactic)(Unknown, but approx. 100,000 b.c.e.)
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And, last, but not least…
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Innovation #0…
Intentional Pedagogy
Transmission of culture;
Generalized knowledge
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Innovation #0…
“The systematic use of teaching to ensure the learning of skills and the acquisition of knowledge by others is evidently a peculiarity of the human species.” --
Barnett, S.A., Teaching Considered as Behavior, in Comparative Psychology: A Handbook, Greenberg, G. And M. Haraway, Taylor & Francis, 1998, p. 203
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Innovation #0…
“Humans are remarkable among animals for the way in which they teach their young.” --
Marton, F. Et al., Learning and Awareness, Erlbaum Assoc., Mahwah, NJ 1997, p. 166.
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Did not make the list…
Theories of disease/innoculations/antibioticsAir conditioningPowered flightSanitary sewers, public water systemsMagnetic compassInternal combustion engineOptical devices (eyeglasses, telescope, microscope)Guns and gunpowderPlasticsTransistor/ComputersWD-40 and Duct TapeSystems of Knowledge OrganizationClocks, Calendars, AlmanacsDemocracy
Stirrup
Hay
The Internet
City
Atomic Bomb
Anesthesia
Female Contraceptive
Spectroscope
Distillation
Free Will
Ecological View (Blue Marble)
Thermos Bottle
Double Entry Accounting
Compound Interest
Mirror
The Idea of the Idea
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But…
The most important innovation of all time is…
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But…
The most important innovation of all time is…
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From Stone to Silicon
The 25 (or so) Most Important Innovations
Lawrence A. HusickCo-Director, Wachman Center
Program on Teaching Innovation
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