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Using Wood
We kept choosing wood, a difficult and expensive medium; a broad, complex category of materials.
Humanity co-evolved with this material. Our close primate tools are wooden spear-like weapons and ant-foraging kits, which suggests that wooden tools precede the genus homo by millions of years. The earliest stone tools discovered only precede the hominids by half a million years (that makes it about 3.3 million years ago). Of course, when comparing wood to stone, or even bone artifacts, there isn’t much left in terms of historical remains. The oldest of them all, as of today, are the Schöningen Spears. And these are rather recent, at 300.000+ years old. Analogically, language doesn’t leave fossils, but we know that people were using this powerful tool since way before the earliest evidence.
Back to our use of wood here and now, at Meze.
A wooden pair doesn’t just look and feel right, but it ages right. Well, not at time spans of fossils, but in our lifespans. And this is important for us, as we avoid building consumables. We try to anticipate the whole lifespan of products. The aim is to be beyond the usual “upgrade cycle”.