One of the biggest inventions of humanity was bread. The invention of bread makes no sense. Baking dough makes little sense without yeast fermentation. Yeast fermentation makes no sense without baking it - without baking it it looks like the dough has gone bad. Making a dough is unsuccessful without making flour first. Why would anyone make flour before knowing what dough or bread is instead of boiling grains and eating them calories. 🍞 🍞 🍞

The invention of bread needed several steps together. Neither step would have been done without the others. 🤔🤔🤔

(This is exaggerated, of course one could imagine am accident of squishing grains in a soup and accidentally leaving it on fire. And unfermented bread chips do exist. But bear with me, this is a metaphor.)

Really makes me think about what future innovations into technology ⚙️⚙️⚙️ could make a huge jump forward for humanity.

We know what super small high capacity batteries 🔋 could do. We know what virophages could do. We know what fusion power could do.

But which senseless innovations are still out there? Which useless inventions could be combined into something useful. What what will be the equivalent jump into the blue to letting dough go bad?