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If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

Bloganuary writing prompt
If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

Nothing.

Every invention paves the way for something else. It ripples throughout time. Nothing is ever really ‘new’ because the foundations of which it is comprised, are rooted deep within the past. If you were to un-invent something, who knows what our lives would look like.

The 2019 film Yesterday is a very good example of this. It’s a film that explores an alternate universe where The Beatles never existed, and the truth is: our culture and entertainment would look drastically different if they had never been. Harry Potter would not exist, nor would a million other things.

I wouldn’t un-invent anything because every invention is the foundation for another.