A list of things that were necessary for human development and help rather than hinder the evolution of consciousness.
- Mindfulness
- Language
- Herbalism
- Airplanes
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Internet
- Birth control
- Anesthetic
- Cooking
- Movable type
This list only contains four items that actively prevented suffering; I don't feel I have enough reference to compare the other items to. But all of them were certainly good.
Top 5 future inventions:
- Internet-assisted peace
- Artificial intelligence
- Nanotechnology
- Space colonization
- Synthetic meat