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Would you like to live without fire? More humans lived without it than with it after all.

That's not actually true, though. There's evidence that domestication of fire predates humanity as we know it.

Maybe use "vaccines" instead of "fire," but it still seems sort of missing the point to co-mingle life and death matters with Photoshop and Facebook.



Or may be use "writing" instead of both.

It's a new technology that enhances oral storytelling and then later replaces it.


Domestication of fire predating humanity as we know it implies to me by the animal kingdom, in which case I'd question how we identified it as such.

Or do you mean "predates modern man"?




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