Example: There was a time when people didn’t salt their food
Sewage systems are the big one I think.
Transistors.
The first working transistor was created in 1947. Before then it was just vacuum tubes. Less than 80 years later the modern world relies completely on its existence.
You use billions of them in your everyday life.
The water trap that’s in your toilet and sinks.
The only thing stopping your home from smelling like a sewer is a bit of water strategically placed.
Literally every piece of infrastructure. Infrastructure is everything that makes things more efficient by being so ubiquitous that it becomes practically invisible.
Sure, there are the obvious ones like clean water and electricity pumped directly to our homes. There are also other kinds of infrastructure that is less visible.
Standardized size of shipping containers, food safety regulations, a legal system that keeps companies’ worst impulses in check, HTML as a freely available spec. These are a few of the many things that enable us to have a high trust society.
Electricity.
Fridge and freezer is a big one imo, in terms of being taken for granted.
Toilets.
Doors.
air conditioning.
Looms that make your shirts, carpets and anything fabric. Would be a hundred to a thousand times more expensive without it
I’m with the infrastructure answer too. It really is too broad but in short, anything that kinda stumps you on your tracks once it fails. Just now for some reason I no longer have hot water, very annoying.
Antibiotics
Boy pre salting is way back. Sorta pre civilization. I guess I could add cooked meat.
What is boy pre salting?
boy (referencing the op, similar to saying dude or man), pre salting is the act of salting food before cooking or eating.
close. im sorta old so it was meant to be more of an oh boy. Now that you mean it seems a bit rude on my part but wuphysics87@lemmy.ml just letting you know the boy was more an exclamation. like jesus but lighter.
Ain’t no thing
Families.
Call your mother. She misses you.
All of them. Is there any invention you shouldn’t take for granted?
Capitalism.
Okay, you got me on that one.
But apart from capitalism, is there any invention out there we shouldn’t take for granted?
There are probably some you take for granted. It would be exhausting to be in constant awe at the wonders of the modern world! Haha
Honestly that sounds amazing. Being in constant awe at the wonders of the modern world.
Sign me up.
