[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Steve Teale]

dsimcha Wrote:

> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> > Sometimes I think what if I were dropped naked back in time 20,000 years
> > ago? Assuming I didn't get promptly cooked for dinner, what technology
> > could I deliver that would have the most impact?
> > I can't decide between iron, agriculture, or writing. I suspect writing.
> > Every time humans got better at communicating, there was a huge increase
> > in the rate of progress.
> > speech
> > writing
> > printing
> > telegraph
> > telephone
> > internet
> 
> One that noone seems to mention, not only on this NG but in general, is birth
> control.  I think a pretty good argument can be made that a major reason for
> recent social advances is that, by only having 2-4 children per set of parents
> instead of 10-20, parents are able to invest much more in each child than they
> otherwise would be.  The end result is a much more educated society and one with
> enough surplus resources to look beyond its mere collective survival to actually
> improving its state of knowledge, comfort, etc.

But how the hell would you have delivered that. First of all you have to deliver chemistry and latex!