I'll go with the obvious answer and say that the internet is the greatest invention.
The PC is pretty awesome too, but it did not change the world on such a level as the internet did.
I can't begin to conceive WW3 taking place in the near future, mostly because of how the internet makes most people realize that regardless of race, gender, or nationality, we all have something in common.
Seeing discussions online on various topics has made me, personally, realize that I'm in no way special, and that there is certainly at least one person somewhere in the world who has felt the exact same thing that I once did, under similar circumstances. Even the words I'm typing now are majorly influenced by things I've read and seen online. Mindblowing.
Definitely the internet for me as well. I know some people may perceive this question as "whats the most important invention", and honestly if that's the case I would go with fire, since because of fire we have cooked food, have warmth, the ability to move around, forge metals, weapons and all the other things that came after we mastered fire. Anyway, the internet brought us all together, helped us to think for ourselves and generally gave us the tools to matter.
I can agree with the Internet. I have learned so much and gotten so much advice and insight on so many topics it is crazy. And just social content such as the comments you see on articles can spark so much conversation that you can learn from. And then when you throw in users linking to different articles to support their views it becomes a spiderweb of knowledge or it has the capability to do so.
Honestly I think it's the toilet, or even plumbing in general. I know it's not the most important but it's one that significantly improved a lot of peoples lives. Can you imagine living without plumbing?
I'll throw in a controversial one, GMO's. Our current population would be unsustainable and our technological growth severely stunted without them. Billions of people saved so far... who knows how many more?
I was thinking it would be the automobile for me, I mean I can't fathom the world without a day trip or two to the beach or a monument or something every now and again. Way back when it took days to get to these things by horse or train if you didn't live near them.
The Invention of Discovery, if that makes sense? Basically whoever it was who made the first discovery about the natural world, whether that discovery was mating or fire or a very rudimentary understanding of physics. Discovering discovery is what led to man creating societies, buildings, the lightbulb, the washing machine, the internet, spaceships. All of science, mathematics, and society hinged on that man hundreds and thousands of years ago who invented curiosity and sought to discover something about the world, whatever that discovery was.
That or alternating current. The switch from gaslamps to electric lights allowed other inventors to stay up later creating plans. It also allowed them to communicate faster and easier across vast distances. It also changed the way the world operates, allowing workers to work later into the night instead of working at the crack of dawn. Alternating current allowed electricity to reach across vast distances of land a lot more efficiently than a direct current, which would require a transformer or power station every couple of blocks in a large city.
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I'll go with the obvious answer and say that the internet is the greatest invention.
The PC is pretty awesome too, but it did not change the world on such a level as the internet did.
I can't begin to conceive WW3 taking place in the near future, mostly because of how the internet makes most people realize that regardless of race, gender, or nationality, we all have something in common.
Seeing discussions online on various topics has made me, personally, realize that I'm in no way special, and that there is certainly at least one person somewhere in the world who has felt the exact same thing that I once did, under similar circumstances. Even the words I'm typing now are majorly influenced by things I've read and seen online. Mindblowing.
I can't believe most people didn't use the internet till the 2000s. It's such a daily part of our lives now.
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Definitely the internet for me as well. I know some people may perceive this question as "whats the most important invention", and honestly if that's the case I would go with fire, since because of fire we have cooked food, have warmth, the ability to move around, forge metals, weapons and all the other things that came after we mastered fire. Anyway, the internet brought us all together, helped us to think for ourselves and generally gave us the tools to matter.
Makes you wonder what things in the future will be more important inventions than the internet.
I can agree with the Internet. I have learned so much and gotten so much advice and insight on so many topics it is crazy. And just social content such as the comments you see on articles can spark so much conversation that you can learn from. And then when you throw in users linking to different articles to support their views it becomes a spiderweb of knowledge or it has the capability to do so.
the alphabet.
nothing else has spread knowledge, ideas, stories, facts, viewpoints, history so far and so wide.
Yeah specifically reading and writing. Even like 300 years ago, most people didn't know how to do either.
Honestly I think it's the toilet, or even plumbing in general. I know it's not the most important but it's one that significantly improved a lot of peoples lives. Can you imagine living without plumbing?
Lots of people in poor areas of Asia live without plumbing.
Airplanes made travel into something you can do in one day, not 2 months.
But travel before was still possible.. its a convenience thing
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I'll throw in a controversial one, GMO's. Our current population would be unsustainable and our technological growth severely stunted without them. Billions of people saved so far... who knows how many more?
As cheeseball as it sounds, I'm gonna go with the wheel. It's so primitive but important.
Birth control, no doubt about it.
I was thinking it would be the automobile for me, I mean I can't fathom the world without a day trip or two to the beach or a monument or something every now and again. Way back when it took days to get to these things by horse or train if you didn't live near them.
The Invention of Discovery, if that makes sense? Basically whoever it was who made the first discovery about the natural world, whether that discovery was mating or fire or a very rudimentary understanding of physics. Discovering discovery is what led to man creating societies, buildings, the lightbulb, the washing machine, the internet, spaceships. All of science, mathematics, and society hinged on that man hundreds and thousands of years ago who invented curiosity and sought to discover something about the world, whatever that discovery was.
That or alternating current. The switch from gaslamps to electric lights allowed other inventors to stay up later creating plans. It also allowed them to communicate faster and easier across vast distances. It also changed the way the world operates, allowing workers to work later into the night instead of working at the crack of dawn. Alternating current allowed electricity to reach across vast distances of land a lot more efficiently than a direct current, which would require a transformer or power station every couple of blocks in a large city.