This Might Be The Most Important Thing We’ve Ever Invented
Joe Scott
Mar 16, 2026 14:47
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There are many things in this world that seem simple but are actually insanely complex and took humanity thousands of years to figure out. Take, for example, the screw. Even though people have been using threaded machines to do work since the ancient Greeks, what we think of as the screw only came into existence in the last couple hundred years. But once it did, it changed everything.
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