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Friday, 10 May 2019

Stories were the first invention

Liked Kevin Adler's note  reporting a talk by Ray Kurzweil:

You connected Singularity University to my work with one simple insight: stories were the first invention. Life is pretty short in prehistoric times if the story of the lion behind the rock is not effectively communicated
Posted by Nick Watkins at 03:45
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