If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

This has me thinking “what an odd prompt” and I can’t quite put my finger on why. Maybe it’s because the past few months of prompts have been dominated by lots of introspective questions around who we are at our core. This just gives me silly ideas.

What could a person choose to un-invent and not totally mess up the world? I could choose smartphones, probably, because then it would change the social media landscape and how information is passed along, but I’m sure something else would eventually replace them. Maybe I should choose a food item.

Let’s un-invent high fructose corn syrup. In the US the food companies love to put that shit in everything. Maybe we’d be healthier without it, but again I bet someone would figure out a reasonable substitute or the manipulative corporate big wigs would find other ways to get people addicted to unhealthy foods.

Wait, is there high fructose corn syrup in some brands of ice cream? I wonder how that would mess things up…