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Tools: Craft Tools and Industrial Tools:
"I spoke to you earlier about man’s developing tools. Just as my own personal strategy I found that I could divide all tools into two main classes-- craft tools and industrial tools. By craft tools I mean those that could be invented, produced, and operated by one man starting nakedly in the wilderness where he could pick up a stick, for example, and use it as a spear. This category includes all kinds of tools for working stone and so forth. All the great artifact heaps that we find around the world are tools that could be and probably were invented by some one man, starting from nothing in the wilderness with no information from anybody and using just his own experience, which taught him that this thing just might work. He tried it and it did work.
“By industrial tools I mean the ones that couldn’t be produced by one man. That’s a simple enough cleavage. The first industrial tool was the spoken word. You can’t invent a word without two people. So, as the Bible says: ‘In the beginning was the Word.’ I’ll say: ‘In the beginning of industrialization was the word.’ This is the beginning of relaying information and experiences from one man to another. Because men were able”
