I am curious about the ways that our daily lives are substantially different from those of ancient times.  This is a running list:

- we got plastic, bitches!

- our soap is way better, and we have bleach if soap isn’t enough

- bleach is probably important enough for it’s own line.  Really.

- concrete is pretty damn old, but I’m counting it.

- our decisions are shaped by advertising more than discussion

- we have a functional democracy.  Just read the label on this can of worms and move on.

- the dialogue between eastern and western philosophy questions some of our most basic premises (ex nihilo, nihil fit)

- the internet might be the biggest change ever

- corn is planted much closer together, making an acre of land much more productive - at the expense of insecticide, nitrogen fertilizer, and fossil fuels

- refrigeration

- popular education

- electric light

What else…?