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 Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:09 pm
What do you think it is? I'd say internet, just because so many people from around the world can talk and share ideas instantaneously, but there's lots of others. Discuss!
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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:14 pm
The refridgeration unit, without which a lot of food would be highly expensive and durn hard to get ahold of.
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 12:15 am
Penicillin, without which we wouldn't have any of the other antibiotics and would still have an infant and mid-birth mortality rate of over 50% 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:24 pm
Gah! Zombified! Oh well, I didn't need that brain anyway ... darn cute ... butterfly thing...
I would have to also say The Internet. Although, I find it hard pressed not to eye many, many other spectacles of technology, medicine, communication. I live and breathe by the Internet. The global implications of this technology have been far-reaching and spectacular.
I feel also that it is unfair to ask people for "the greatest" overall, as it gives us poor criteria to do comparisons. I wouldn't mind doing some sort of top ten examination. With the implied "changed the course of human history forever" branded onto the technology. Advances of medicine certainly have caused a great deal of change. The 20th Century was not without many marvels.
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:25 pm
.Farfarello The refridgeration unit, without which a lot of food would be highly expensive and durn hard to get ahold of. But there -were- iceboxes beforehand.
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:21 am
The birth control pill. It changed oh so many moral values.
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:10 pm
Ah, if this was a thread for the greatest invention of all time, then I would have said indoor plumbing. Life is just so much better when you don't have to go outside at thirty below to get a drink or run to the john.
Alas, for the twentieth century, nothing currently comes to mind. I'll have to think on it and edit this later. ninja
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:16 pm
Computers. ((Despite the fact that there may have been the rudimentary predecessors of them before that century, they didn't really emerge until then.))
Without them, you wouldn't have ATMs, the Internet, good TV, good movies with really cool special effects, or any of those other things that make life so NICE!
That's my two cents, anyways.... biggrin
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:46 pm
Duct tape. It fixes everything.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:37 am
radical jojo Duct tape. It fixes everything. It's like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together!
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:46 pm
The aeroplane connects people extremely far away and allows the transport of medicines, aid, and other emergency items to be fast enough to actually change the outcome of an event. It has also revolutionized trade and warfare.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:55 am
I would have to say the lightbulb / the harnessing of electricity. Without which we would not have the alluring light of the refrigerator, nor the knowledge of how to light up that computer screen you look at all day long. And the work day would still be 9 to 5, because working by candlelight is just too difficult. And the wire filaments within the bulb, I am sure they led to other great discoveries.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:18 pm
~Seishin~ Ah, if this was a thread for the greatest invention of all time, then I would have said indoor plumbing. Life is just so much better when you don't have to go outside at thirty below to get a drink or run to the john. Alas, for the twentieth century, nothing currently comes to mind. I'll have to think on it and edit this later. ninja
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:59 pm
I'm going to have to agree with whoever said the lightbulb/harnessing of electricity. Most of the other things mentioned would not be possible without that.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:34 am
~Seishin~ Ah, if this was a thread for the greatest invention of all time, then I would have said indoor plumbing. Life is just so much better when you don't have to go outside at thirty below to get a drink or run to the john. Alas, for the twentieth century, nothing currently comes to mind. I'll have to think on it and edit this later. ninja Yes, but plumbing wasn't invented in the 20th century. Even the Romans had plumbing and there's evidence that the Mayans and other ancient civilizations had it also. I'd say the internet because it has led to the transition from the industrial age into an information age, and that's a pretty important shift (just as important as the industrial revolution). The internet is pretty much causing the world to globalize as it never would have otherwise and as it has never done before.
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