This changed the way the world communicates, and any many ways, the way it works. Humans today could not survive without the internet even though it has only been functional for about thirty years.
Though the Holocaust is probably the most publically known genocide, Pol Pot’s executions remind us that genocide is still alive and well in a less public forum.
This is arguably man’s first major discovery. No doubt they had seen fire, but in being able to create and wield it, man now jumped above the food chain by being able to create warmth, light, and means of protection from other animals.