800 Lifespans Bridge 50,000 Years

Eight hundred life spans can bridge more than 50,000 years. But of these 800 people, 650 spent then lives in caves or worse; only the last 70 had any truly effective means of communicating with one another, only the last 6 ever saw a printed word or had any real means of measuring heat or cold, only the last 4 could measure time with any precision; only the last 2 used an electric motor; and the vast majority of the items that make up our material world were developed within the lifespan of the eight-hundredth person.

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 Assessing Technology Transfer
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Lesher, Richard L. and Howick, George J. (1966), Assessing Technology Transfer, NASA, Retrieved on 2014-06-21
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