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1999 : WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT INVENTION IN THE PAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS? [1]

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Douglas Rushkoff [5]
Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Life, Inc.

The eraser. As well as the delete key, white-out, the Constitutional amendment, and all the other tools that let us go back and fix our mistakes.

Without our ability to go back, erase, and try again, we'd have no scientific model, nor any way to evolve government, culture, or ethics. The eraser is our confessor, our absolver, and our time machine.

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