GreatestInvention

The fourth most brilliant creation of all time?: The "Random page" button at the top of a Wiki item's display — plus countless other ways of juxtaposing concepts to give birth to new notions ...
The third most wonderful?: Wiki — along with any other meta-method, before or after, that makes it easier to record verses of idea-prose-poems and cross-link them into visions of mind ...
The second-place prize-winner?: Language itself — and the "itself-ishness" that lets language reflect light upon its own face ...
The greatest invention?: ...

(see also ThinkingToolsDefined (6 Apr 1999), DiffuseConsciousness (21 May 2003), SiMonumentumRequiris (4 Apr 2004), ...)