Inventions

In Stone Age if society at the time waited for me to invent fire we would still be sitting around eating raw meat.  Let's face it I wouldn't even have figured out how to make a club.  I would never have invented a fork and people would still have been using their fingers to eat the raw meat that I hadn't figured out how to cook.

I wouldn't have invented cave painting,  or a written language.  I doubt I would have thought of using animal skins to write my non-invented language on.  I definitely would not have invented paper or ink.  I wouldn't have invented glass to make monocles to read the written language that I hadn't invented because I was still sitting around eating raw meat.  Of course because I hadn't invented fire no-one could have used sand to make the glass that was the pre-requisite of the glasses made to read the writing that I hadn't invented because as I have said before I am still there in the cave waiting for the men to bring in the dead animal to not cook because it was my job to invent the fire.

 Someone would have invented knives but if it was left up to me I would never have thought of making forks. Why would I need a fork when I could just stab a bit of raw meat on my blade and eat it bloody and raw.   Now maybe if I had a knife I might (just might) have thought of tying two knives together to make scissors. However, why would I need to invent scissors when there was nothing to cut with them I hadn't invented paper yet or using the animal skin to write on plus there would have been no charcoal because I have said before everyone was still waiting for me to make fire. Thank goodness evolution was not left to me, I wouldn't even have given monkeys opposable thunbs.  Well that is really biology but still I am sure you get the idea.

 Assuming that the Stone Age people have given me the sack for not inventing anything to help society go forward, someone would have done my job with the fire, then invented the wheel and then paper, ink, glass and glasses.  Just think all I would have had to do is rub two sticks together or hit two rocks together and voila there would have been fire.  Then I would have been on a roll and invented Red Heads matches, cigarette lighters, dynamite, lasers and so on.  How sad then it is that I would still be sitting in the cave by myself wondering where everyone else had gone.  Not only would I not have a fire there would not have been any cave men kill the animals that I would have eaten raw.  Civilization would have stopped with me all because I had not invented fire.