Technology Revolution

Sometime about a million and a half years ago, some forgotten genius of the hominid world did an unexpected thing. she took one stone and carefully used it to shape another. | The result was a simple teardrop-shaped hand-ax, but it was the world's first piece of advanced technology. | Eventually, whole societies existed that seemed to do little else. | It was so superior to existing tools that soon others were following the inventor's lead and making hand-axes of their own.