That’s a pretty bold claim, “String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions”
So, how much of this hobby is dependent on the existence of string, other than for the train wreck term stringlining?
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-long-knotty-world-spanning-story-of-string/
In a fiberless world, the age of naval exploration would never have happened; early light bulbs would have lacked suitable filaments; the pendulum would never have inspired advances in physics and timekeeping; and there would be no Golden Gate Bridge, no tennis shoes, no Beethoven’s fifth symphony.
“Everybody knows about fire and the wheel, but string is one of the most powerful tools and really the most overlooked,” says Saskia Wolsak, an ethnobotanist at the University of British Columbia who recently began a PhD on the cultural history of string. “It’s relatively invisible until you start looking for it. Then you see it everywhere.”
