# Technology: fastest and slowest in evolving

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-fastest-and-slowest-in-evolving/321868>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 15, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-fastest-and-slowest-in-evolving/321868 "2005-09-15T22:41:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-fastest-and-slowest-in-evolving/321868/41 "2005-09-21T20:13:40Z")

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> [@BlackKnight](#):
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> There hasn’t been a lot of innovation in fork technology of late, has there?

Spork 🙂

Disposable chopsticks is an innovation in chopstick technology as are plastic chopsticks (easier to clean)?

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-fastest-and-slowest-in-evolving/321868/42 "2005-09-22T00:22:04Z")

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> [@scr4](#):
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> How are they more efficient? How do you measure the “efficiency” of eating utensils anyway?

Yes, chopsticks are great for soup, aren’t they? And so good for holding a piece of meat still while you slice it with a knife. Spoons especially are a better design for shovelling food in your mouth than chopsticks. You don’t see the advantage there?

Fact of the matter is, I imagine the disposability of chopsticks was a huge advantage in the hygeine department back before washing things was widely understood to be important to health in Europe.

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