Humanity's 10-Million-Year Evolutionary Relationship with Alcohol and the Potential for Technological Sobriety
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Summary
The article explores humanity's long evolutionary relationship with alcohol, tracing it back 10 million years, and suggests that modern technology may lead to a future where we move away from alcohol consumption. It describes the immediate physiological effects of alcohol and positions civilization as having been built on alcohol, while hinting at technological solutions that could 'sober us up.'
Key quotes
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First there is a faint burning sensation, a little chemical spark, as the thin mouth membranes absorb a drop.
If the stomach is empty, the booze starts to pass into the bloodstream within minutes—and then reaches almost every cell and tissue in the body.
Civilisation was built on alcohol. Technology may sober us up.
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