Reply
Sun 21 Dec, 2003 05:40 am
I'm really not sure.If we're take the effect of the invention on the masses I get the following inventions.
1) Colour TV
2) Computer
3) Cell Phone
4) Total Body Scanner.
5) Jet Plane
6) Fridge
7) Micro Oven
8) Internet
9) Satelites
The above list is neither comphrehensive nor is it in the order of importance.These are the inventions I beleive have changed our life very much. Do we need to apply a different criteria like affordability or how Good the effect of it on comman man?
The computer allows learning, but only with software. The internet puts the world at you fingertips.
The transistor. Without the transistor, the others could never have happened.
Hmm... I will amend that. The answer is electricity. Without electricity, we never could have had the products that we have today. That DID happen in the last century. My mom can remember when they replaced the gas fixtures in her house with electric ones!
My grandmother, who lived from 1899 to 1991, when asked this question, replied: "Cake mixes."
If you can read this, thank a computer.
There's a calculus textbook from the 1940s that contains an appendix on interesting areas of mathematics with no conceivable practical application. Among them is binary numbers...
I voted TV because I actually hate my computer...
that and it has taken me 6 months just to do this much...whereas TV has kept me globally connected for over 40 years...ha..and all I have to do with it is pull the little knob..
Phoenix32890 wrote:The transistor. Without the transistor, the others could never have happened.
I am not much for watching TV...but I could not live without a computer!
Did I mention the George Foreman Grill...in f@@@ingcredible!
I'm happy to see many divergent responses.I personally feel it should be Internet.Because, this's the one that has made our world a global village.We could all be in able2know.com because of internet and computer.
The ability to cut and splice DNA
I personally believe it's Satellites, without them we wouldn't have TV/Cable, Cell Phones, Internet, etc.
Misti26 wrote:I personally believe it's Satellites, without them we wouldn't have TV/Cable, Cell Phones, Internet, etc.
Personally, I use a 2-way Satellite Sender/Receiver Dish apparatus for both Television and the Internet, so I definitely know what you mean. Interesting note however; Satellites are not really required for any of your 3 examples. :wink:
PatriUgg, Making Light of this discussion about great invention, eh? Well, ketchup isn't it.
Ketchup is something that comes in a bottle.
First none will come out, and then a lottle.
Besides, it isn't the ketchup bottle, it's the thermos bottle. Yes, yes. You put somethng cold in it, it stays cold !!! you put something hot in it, it stays hot !!!
How does it know?
BillyFalcon, we must agree to disagree then.
As a subjective and evolving valuation of worth towards humanity and to ones own experience of wordly existence, I would postulate that ketchup is most certainly rated the "best" invention, if for no other justification than it provides great pleasure and deep gratitude, such higher states of spiritual acheivement and discovery, while exploring moments of purest culinary simplicity. And it doesn't cost that much either.
But to each their own taste.
Good one, Mechsmith. No one under the age of 45 or 50 can imagine how our lives were influenced by polio.
Stumble It!
Tweet This
Bookmark on Delicious
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace