10,000 years ago we were cavemen who lived off the land. We only had what was accesible in nature. Now we have cars, iPhones, and computers. I’m assuming everything we have now is composed of the same matter cavemen had access to. How did we get all this stuff?

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I just don’t get how the Earth went from being entirely nature to having the iPhone I’m typing this on. And like where did we get the internet? And how do we take pictures?

ETA: A lot of great answers but I’m not really asking about people. More about the stuff. When I picture the Earth 10,000 years ago I don’t see anything that could make my phone.

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Well they started with some rocks and sticks and banged them together and stuff. Eventually they figured out that you could make them sharp and kill stuff as well as plant food to make more food more often. Because food was secure in specific places people would move to those places and then more food and more people. Then people started to do things that weren’t growing food but supported growing food so they got paid in food. Eventually people figured out more efficient ways of getting food and making tools and getting rocks and melting rocks etc. this cycle continued for a very long time of people figuring out new ways to make more food and supply more people and as cities and towns grew beyond just food they invented trade of goods and currency and things. This then led to more discoveries of more techniques and ideas in other places because trade isn’t just goods but ideas too and so more things were discovered and people invented science by noticing patterns. People started to learn more and more about the fundamentals of our universe and then boom explosives and plastics and nuclear bombs as we learned more of the basic structures of the universe, using tools and techniques like glass smelting that are thousands of years old. Everything built on everything else.

https://youtu.be/xuCn8ux2gbs this should help