20 Top Tools of all Time

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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	20 Top Tools of all Time 08/31/2005 4:45 PM
	Forbes has compiled a list of the top 20 tools of all time. The top 5 are: 1) The Knife 2) The Abacus 3) The Compass 4) The Pencil 5) The Harness The scary thing is that 3 out of the top 10 are, or can be, weapons. __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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Irving Power-User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Saratoga, NY Posts: 103 Good Answers: 3	#1 Important Tools 09/01/2005 11:17 AM
	What about the lever, the wheel, the inclined plane, the hammer? I guess when you pick an arbitrary set of criteria you can get arbitray results. Don't get me wrong the tools presented are important but most important?
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Chris Leonard Friend of CR4 Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1776 Good Answers: 35	#2 Fire? 09/01/2005 11:27 AM
	The criteria says nothing about the tool being man-made, so how does fire not make the list? __________________ Off to take on other challenges. Good luck everybody! See you around the Interwebs.
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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	#3 In reply to #2 Re:Fire? 09/02/2005 8:38 AM
	I think it had to be manmade, otherwise fire and elctricity would have been 1 and 2. __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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Chris Leonard Friend of CR4 Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1776 Good Answers: 35	#4 In reply to #3 Re:Fire? 09/02/2005 8:50 AM
	The criteria are way too arbitrary. __________________ Off to take on other challenges. Good luck everybody! See you around the Interwebs.
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