The things you can pass on are the mental hacks that enable you to do more better. Not physical technologies, but things like writing (not the writing itself, but the ability to) and mathematics. Little superpowers of thinking are how civilisation actually advances.
As for the stuff you're talking about ... you are, after all, one of the people whose job it is to pass this stuff on in a form it can be passed on.
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Date: 2010-10-08 09:20 pm (UTC)As for the stuff you're talking about ... you are, after all, one of the people whose job it is to pass this stuff on in a form it can be passed on.