From 6 steps to 19: an origami duck shows how human technological complexity exploded
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-11-06
You can gauge technological complexity by counting manufacturing steps. For millions of years, hominid artifacts required only about six steps; by 100,000 years ago, objects needed 10+; by the Holocene, blades took 19—and a modern origami duck takes 12. Shared with the quip that Homo erectus could never have managed it.
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