Okay, the answers to last week’s questions were incredibly interesting! I had really expected everyone to fall in line with a questions/beginnings and answers/endings groupings, but to my surprise there were quite a number people who fell across the boundary! Strange, I guess you learn something new and unexpected about people all the time! Many people also pointed out the link between the two sides, with a cyclical relationship between the two choices.
This week, I guess I will be going with something less philosophical and abstract, but nothing as interesting as asking about the colour of a banana (as suggested by @simplymike)! The question does have something to do with the fact that I'm a tech nerd at heart. I love gadgets and learning about new ways to harness natural and physical universe to our benefit (or otherwise).
Technology and inventions are the visible and tangible artefacts of our scientific progress, and they all serve to raise our living standards in various ways. Of course, there is no morality to tools, and so for every scientific or technological advance, there are ways to use it for both common good or common less good! (I’m still not convinced of the existence of an absolute evil, but that is a post for a different day!)
So, this has got me to thinking, out of the myriad of technological and scientific advances, what would have been the most important ones that have impacted on all of us in a profound and meaningful way?
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1.What do you consider to be the most important invention to have been developed? And why do you consider it to be so important?
Just as a little pre-emptive strike, I am going to rule out answers like “scientific method” and other philosophical modes of thought, I am looking really looking for tangible answers not abstract ones! Not to say that the abstract ones are unimportant (I personally think they are the more important of the two!) but only that I'm interested only about asking (this week) about the tangible inventions.
Also, I will rule out answers like “Crypto” and “Blockchain” as they are currently unrealised potential rather than things that have born fruit. They might (I hope) have the possibility of revolutionising many things via decentralisation of data and computing, but as yet, nothing is fully realised in this space!
My sample answer
My answer is Sewage and the system of cleaning and distribution of clean water at a large scale to a town or city sized population.
Humans need water, full stop, and untreated water is a breeding ground for parasites and other nasties that would prevent the formation of large population centres. After a natural disaster, we are reminded of this fact, the lack of clean drinking water can lead quickly to disease outbreaks if it is not solved in short order.
Of course the modern way of doing it is far superior to the old ways, but even in the Roman times, the invention of this technology enabled populations centres to grow and flourish, which in turn allowed trade, research and other non-survival pursuits to develop in relative safety. Who knows, perhaps the future holds further advances in the field of water purification that improve on the techniques that we already employ, developments that rely more upon molecular filtering or other interesting techniques that wouldn’t be limited by energy requirements?
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For this I'm going to go with a slightly selfish interpretation of your question, and focus on an invention which impacts me on a personal level rather than one that is of global importance.
For me the invention is the technology that makes video calls possible (skype, face time, Facebook messenger and no doubt plenty of others).
My wife and I have an almost three year old daughter, but my brother and parents live in a completely different state to us, as is my wife's brother. This technology allowd everyone to stay close and lets my daughter maintain contact with family that she doesn't get to see every day. It lets them see her development and experience more of her growing personality than can ever be possible with just standard phonecalls and photos.
Oh, video calling is a great innovation! We live on the other side of the planet to our extended family, and video calling lets us keep in touch. Calls can be a bit chaotic at times when there are about 10 or more people in the call... And sometimes internet can be a bit flaky (I think it is Australia and not here...)..
Funnily enough, the calls to my mother always start in the same way... Can't hear you... Now we can't see you.. Now we can't hear you. Just wait, we will call you again...
It's been like this every week for years...
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Hi, I will go with an invention related to my work, the harnessing of nuclear power. Einstein predicted that E=mc^2 and that mass is a huge store of energy so huge that it makes other stores of energy such as coal look like a bad joke. Everything around us is filled with enough energy to annihilate the entire world.
The big problem is how to access this power and currently we do so by splitting atoms such that the outgoing states have a tiny bit less mass that is converted into pure energy. This technology has the potential to bring cheap energy to the world, but also huge downsides of producing nuclear waste. Currently it is very hard to say if nuclear power plants are a blessing or a curse.
The same holds for nuclear bombs, the most dangerous weapon ever developed, able to wipe out entire cities in one second. Will this technology bring lasting peace or destroy our entire civilisation? Only time will tell.
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I believe Robert Oppenheimer was quoting the Hindu god Vishnu from the Bhagavad Gita.
We are lucky that the avatars of Vishnu never learnt to split the atom...
This is so true! Bengy you are funnily philosophical!
It is a mixed blessing.. But technology is morally agnostic. In the other hand nuclear waste (and the potential for accidental contamination) is a large price to pay. I hear that fusion has broken at the experimental stage (laser confinement), now if only that could be scaled up, that would be a potentially game changing fix...
Or if there was a possibility of solid state battery storage...
But definitely, nuclear power has given us a boost to efficiency of energy production, which is essential for a modern civilisation.
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The most important invention for me is the internet.
The internet today is a major part of our day to day lives and serves as a means of communication, employment and to name a few.
The internet has also set the parse for the creation of many more convenient tools like Apps, websites and presently blockchain technology and Cryptocurrencies.
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Definitely, the spread of information availability has been a huge boon to the growth of civilisation... If only the ability to be critical and to be able to analyse the information grew at the same exponential pace...
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It has changed the whole world both for the better and for the worse.
That it has... Technology is very much morally agnostic!
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My answer is printing. It allowed for the first time massive spreading of information. I think it is the most important invention for knowledge storage and distribution. It supposed the end of the Middle Ages, and it was essential for the advancement to the Age of Enlightenment.
The effect of printing unfortunately was not that impressive initially because of the low literacy rates, and its importance started to decay slightly with the invention of radio.
Oh yes! Great choice! The ability to disseminate knowledge in a portable form (not moving a person from place to place) was such a huge step! No longer needing to re-invent the wheel, and being able to learn from the experiences of others! However, like you said, the literacy part needed to catch up a little bit!
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source Right now even in many parts of America people are on internet speeds under 20 Mbs. Why cause we are very bad at upgrading our infrastructure and most areas only have old copper wires and the only areas with fiber are major cities or places google or amazon had it installed. Now Verizon isn't the only person doing this. You can read a lot here But Facebook and Google along with a few others are looking to use this kind of wireless internet to connect people all over the world. This will lead us to a truly interconnected world. With speeds that would allow you to video chat with people in countries to you might never get to visit in person. This is going to change the world and it is going to do it soon.@bengy thanks for doing these it is always fun to read through these and try and give a good answer. That being said I a going to go with something that I think will be new to most and not to all. That is the new 5g wireless networks. People talk about the internet and what is has done for the world but at the same time they don't all realize how many people are not on the internet and even more how many don't have fast internet. Right now it is estimated that about half the world doesn't have access to the internet and of the half that do some are still restricted to what they can view. Those users at force to try to find away around those firewalls that make they fall back on slow wireless internet. Well that could be a think of past soon. "Verizon hasn't specified how fast its 5G network speeds will be, an early test witnessed by CNET showcased whopping speeds of 3.77Gbps. "
Superfast internet is a great boon... if it could only reach everyone that it needed. I live now in Netherlands and there is cheap and blazing fast internet available... and in addition, REAL competition and consumer protection, things that I think are probably lacking a little bit over there in USA!
However, when I go back to Australia, I'm horrified at the cost and speed of what they have to deal with there. It really is a choke on the economy and everything in general! However, that said, Australia (and the USA) are slightly larger countries than Netherlands, and so there are physical and economic problems of scale...
Yes and USA is a for profit in all things country. Sometimes this can be bad for us but it does also to lead to some people creating really amazing companies.
It can definitely lead to that, but I sometimes wonder if you guys have the balance right! Also, although, many proclaim loudly that it is a free market economy, it really isn't!
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This is a really good question, and one I have been pondering for almost half a day now...
I think my answer, without reading anyone else's answer, except yours @bengy, would be...
Nitrogen fertilizer! This stuff has made it possible to feed the billions of people we currently do, and in doing so destroy the pessimistic Malthusian predictions at every turn. Every time we thought we would not be able to feed more people, we've learned to nitrogen better, from bat poop to using natural gas.
I currently, along with many others around the world, am working on the next generation understanding of nitrogen, fixing nitrogen from the air directly into the soil. But however you slice it, nitrogen is what has allowed our civilization to grow to this level. (Water was a pretty good one too ;p)
Nitrogen fertiliser! That is a great choice, the ability to feed millions and to increase the productivity of land! The Haber process has been one of the great discoveries of the modern age, without which, we would have a different population dynamic! On the other hand, it has come with some costs...
I'm pretty curious about the possibility of fixing nitrogen directly from the air! Sounds intriguing and much more of an elegant solution... how far is the research down this track?
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Now unto the reply:
If we’re being earnest here, then we gotta acknowledge one of the first inventions of humankind. That invention being agriculture, it laid a revolution that changed the entirity of humankind and how we lived even up to this point. Agriculture, even unconsciously, dominates our everyday life like the economy and politics of society. Agriculture makes us think how much we can produce, what we can produce and why we can continue to grow upwards in population and size. Agriculture, is one of the baselines of society where that’s ruined, then we’re all screwed if we cannor unpeck the damage. Agriculture, as aformentioned, is the birth and gravitas of modern society, as it was during its inception with early societies.
For without the invention of agriculture (farming), we’d all be stuck in this quasi-state of nomad-settlement societies where we’re always on the move and never truly in one spot. Without farming, we’d have none of the superstructural advancements like governance or written language, or economic advancements like logistics or organized trade. Without farming, our population couldn’t grow from under a half Billion to ~8 Billion as of today. Without farming, history would just be farcical as it cannot advance outta the Pre-history stage and must reproduce it even when conditions alter. Without farming, we wouldn’t have great empires like Rome, Charlemange’s France, Mali or Ming. Without farming, we wouldn’t have the French and Russian October Revolutions that changed the face of politics and economics forever. Without farming, we wouldn’t have libraries or the internet to hold our developed and expanded upon knowledge. Without farminf, we wouldn’t have modern entertainment like movies, games and sports. Without farming, we wouldn’t have the industrial era come about that would lead to the invention you talked about today... Without farming, WE WOULDN’T HAVE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEMS!
Haha! Yes, agriculture definitely trumps water treatment! As you mention, the concept of agriculture is (was) the birth of many things that still exist today... including our systems of organisation and political power. The need to settle and defend a settlement gave rise to many things, as did the ability to rise above mere subsistence survival!
I'm really trying to figure out where that gif comes from! It looks incredibly familiar!
Indeed. Anyways, the gif comes from the net. However, it’s MGSV Revolver Ocelot doing the “You’re pretty good!” Meme.
That's what it was! I knew it looked familiar! I see you are fan of the series...
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Yay RNG! These are so much fun, I love that you put this on each week.
Hmm, most important tech, eh?
I mean, is "agriculture" a tech? Or animal domestication? I guess I would have to say that was the most important. To me, that's the starting point that allowed civilization as we know it to begin. Once a minority of the populace could support the majority's food requirements, it opened the door to all kinds of room for new ideas and technologies. The hunter-gatherer tribes could grow into city-states, with all the associated trades and professions.
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You are the third (I think) person to suggest food production of some sort as the most important technology! To be honest, I had really forgotten about the impact of food production... especially when you can start to support more people than those that are directly involved in the actual production of food. Oooops, big blind spot for me there!
Add “of the modern era” to your question and you’re covered :)
I was thinking only back to the beginning of the industrial revolution at first, but then remembered things like sailing, writing, etc. and realized there was a whole “BC” list of inventions to consider as well!
If I am just thinking of the modern era, I would say refrigeration and air conditioning. Food preservation and the ability to do all that deep thinking indoors :)
Lol, maybe I'll change it now! Just to make your answer look weird!
😮 you wouldn’t dare!
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For me personally it was my first home computer. Long before the Internet and inkjet printers, it was a Tandy 1000 and it changed my life in no small way.
Specifically I had written a small booklet of 24 pages. I typed it on an electric typewriter. It had words and simple illustrations that I drew and pasted on the page (no re-sizing). It sounds fairly simple. But getting the margins just right, allowing for the space around the pictures, I ended up typing the whole booklet all the way through 33 times! And I swore I would not write another thing without a word processor!
That computer had 128k hard drive and used the 5.25 floppy disks. But oh the joy of creating my own signs and posters! Printed them on colored paper because there was no such thing as colored ink. And of course more booklets.
My second choice would the portable phone. Not a cell phone, but a cordless home phone. I could walk anywhere in the house without tangling the cord or trying to stretch it just a little bit further to reach the sink. Sure, cell phones are pretty great, but I remember that first bit of freedom!
Oh wow! The story of your booklet is pretty amazing!
Thank you! When I look back on it I wonder if I'd have the patience to do that now. But at the time it was the only way and I was determined to get it just right. I am a fairly fast typist but it still it took a long time!
Precisely! I remember doing certain thing, repetitive tasks, in my case cleaning data in enormous excel sheets. Nowadays I am learning to automate these processes in R and even with python. We grow with our tools!
Okay, I don't even know what that means! 8-}
(I played with spreadsheets for about 10 minutes.)
But I agree this kind of technology is pretty wonderful! I've always admired those creative minds who see a problem, or a need, and go forth to find a solution.
Oh man, rewriting it 33 times! I don't think I would have the patience for that! Even with word processors, when I have to use them, I am hard pressed to do more than a couple of revisions before I lose interest... but it is great that you have the ability to keep at it and make your work better!
Haha, what would we do without the ability to keep chatting whilst doing something else!
I admit I was a little obsessive with that booklet.
The back story on that is that at the time I was a railroad train dispatcher. I made a mistake and was suspended for two months. If it had been for a week I would have felt desperate to get back to work. But I decided to make use of my off time to work on the home business I'd started. Writing the booklet was part of that, and giving classes at the community center. By the time one month had passed I was making serious plans to leave my railroad job and do my small business full time. It took 3 years for that to happen but it was the best decision I ever made!
A little obsessive....
I prefer my phone calls to be about 3 seconds long! Preferably consisting of a question and a simple YES/NO answer! Okay... for more complicated questions, probably about 10 seconds maximum!
Okay, I hope you didn't make a mistake in the railway scheduling! That would have been difficult... definitely, for those things a lot of obsessiveness is a good thing!
I'm assuming these are business calls? Because that's a bit abrupt if it's a call to a friend! (Hi, how are you? Fine. Okay, bye.) :-)
I have friends that can take 20 minutes just saying goodbye!
You know, I don't actually remember what my offense was! I might have delayed a priority train. (The RR pays a fine for delaying an Amtrak train and they really don't like that.) I was still new and while I didn't think I should have been given a pass I thought 2 months was excessive. From their side it worked, I was never suspended again.
My wife's family takes about 20 minutes to say good bye! It drives me nuts! However, I think my kids take a bit after me in that respect... we say it is about time to leave... and before we know it they have jackets on and shoes on and are waiting by the door!
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That depends on what your priorities are in life. If you care about the whole world more than yourself then obviously the likes of water treatment was a huge step forward for society. From a selfish point of view it would have to be more along the lines of the smartphone. While not the most important scientific or technological advancement it has been the biggest revelation for my generation.
The smartphone has changed almost every aspect of the society that we live in today. From how we interact, learn, bank, shop. The smartphone is now integrated into every part of what we do. Where i work we regularly have people over the age of 80 pulling out their phone to perform a task or pay for a product. It's amazing to think that growing up they wouldn't even have had a phone in the house.
We have been raised with this technology and everything that comes with it. It would be fair to say that smartphones have both taken over the world and connected ever corner of it to each other. Even watching refugees fleeing into Europe they still had an iphone in the hand when they didn't have food to eat. It has created a technological revolution.
Definitely, the smartphone and the internet backbone behind it has gone a long way in achieving the democratisation of information and access to knowledge! The fact that this is still in many ways a technology that is still finding it's purpose after a decade of explosive mainstream development is just mind blowing! It has become the mainstay of every digitally connected citizens life, a touchstone of communication and access, as you said, even people with nothing else prize these possessions for their ability to connect to others.
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The best invention to each person may vary but mine is electricity.
With electricity most all other invention will be useless.
Ha that's right! Except a lot of the older technologies! But you are correct, the modern age would be impossible without the knowledge of how to generate electricity!
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Hola @bengy, cariños y besos.
Un invento importante, son los satélites de comunicación. Porque hacen posible estar comunicados, con otras partes del mundo. Se puede ver las noticias, y programas de TV, de otros países y nos podemos comunicar con personas del mundo entero.
Communication Satellites! That is an interesting one! Communication is a really important part of being able to bind physically seperate communities and satellites are a great way to do provide the backbone to do this when cables and optic fibre are difficult to lay out too expensive... Great choice!
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Oh god, there are so many joke answers that it would be fun to try to make a case for. Junk mail comes to mind. So many innovations have come from it, and it's older than you think. In fact, The Lascaux cave paintings were the first spam.
And so on.
As far as serious answers go, I wonder where the boundary between abstract and concrete is for you. The idea of dealing with sewage in a sanitary way is even a bit abstract. You're pointing at the whole concept of sewage, not a particular item that works in a sewage plant. So can I point to language? Which is abstract in that it's a series of concepts, but which is concrete in that there are many components of it that you can point to and touch, like books.
But leaving those alone, let us make the case for the plow, which is a concrete representation of agriculture.
The plow gave humans the ability to settle in one place, growing all the food they'd need for the whole year, and support others whose employment could then be specialized in non-food-producing capacity. It gave us leisure. And leisure is what has led to all inventions. For without leisure, all energy must be spent on survival.
Ha, good point! I wasn't really thinking too hard about where abstract and concrete lay!
Definitely, language, the ability for knowledge to be shared, I would also consider to be an important invention! Probably without it, we would have gone extinct a long time ago!
The plow (and by extension, agriculture) is a great choice though. The ability to produce food, more than enough for the whole year and for a greater number of people than those that worked on producing it in the first place does give rise to free time which could then be better used to extend other skills. It is what would give rise to our power organisations as well!
Whether the world is better or worse off for power organizations may be debatable, but it's certainly been influential!
Organising power structures is unavoidable... However much we dislike it, one person's interest will always eventually collide with another's...
I can imagine a world in which this isn't true, so maybe not 'always', but certainly now, yes.
I wish it weren't true, but I think I would agree with the thoughts put forward here by @quillfire:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@quillfire/central-premise-and-proposals-a-series-about-fixing-steemit-part-4
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True true... electricity is central to the modern world! Although, people did manage to get a fair bit done before it as well!
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As the invasions of technologies taking place from this year to a years of fold. I think lots of them being upgraded. So, i haave choosed ultrasound. Ultrasound for me makes life's easy as a mother carrying her baby and a man with agonizing the pain which is only be tangible as for everybody. The life of science is light weighted from the true life's itself. No doctor will say, he will be gone tomorrow or he will be alive by the next day.
Congratulations on the coming baby!
Ultrasound is such a great gift for expecting parents! It helps form an even more intense connection to the life that is beginning to form inside! But importantly, it can help with intervening against some potentially avoidable problems!
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To add sense of completement to all women in the world as motherhood. For helping diagnostic illness preventing to being severe.
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First, I have to say something about water. I too believe that water is life and that we can only live in large settlements if we treat our excretions and have access to clean water. The filth and disease of the medieval cities was real. Yet, we still pollute our waterways and the sewage facilities rely way too much on chemical treatment instead of deploying more natural methods like they do in Arcata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcata_Wastewater_Treatment_Plant_and_Wildlife_Sanctuary
On to your question. A part of me wants to answer the formulation, discovery, rediscovery of Permaculture. But that is more of a thought model and not a "thing".
So, I want to go with the discovery, application, and implementation of the internet. Through this technology, we can share knowledge worldwide. Plans on how to build that water pump needed in a village to secure a constant water supply. Or knowledge how we could build instant compost toilets in disaster areas and avoid the contamination of the groundwater and the spread of diseases.
It also enables us to create a worldwide community and maybe someday it will think into all of our collective pumpkin heads that our actions - every action, has worldwide consequences and that we need to think a little bit harder about all we do.
And of course, the worldwide functions allows us to help each other - be it to get hay to farmers in Australia whose animals are starving because of the drought or to help a woman in Venezuela to get an operation she needs very much.
Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant and Wildlife Sanctuary
Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant and Wildlife Sanctuary is an innovative sewer management system employed by the city of Arcata, California.A series of oxidation ponds, treatment wetlands and enhancement marshes are used to filter sewage waste. The marshes also serve as a wildlife refuge, and are on the Pacific Flyway. The Arcata Marsh is a popular destination for birders. The marsh has been awarded the Innovations in Government award from the Ford Foundation/Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.
I had a quick look at the Arcata project! Wow, that does look like a pretty good thing! Do you know if it can properly scale up to a city sized project though? It does seem quite land intensive? I would be putting some hope more into molecular filtration or something along those lines for denser city populations.
Permaculture (or at least the rediscovery of it) does sound like a great thing, but I'm afraid it is an area that I know very little about. I will have to read more about it, but thanks for sparking my interest!
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Writing.
Without writing most of the inventions mentioned here would not (or hardly) been possible. What would be the printing press without writing?
Language as such was not much of an inventions, but more a natural development. Writing speech down, so that it becomes largely independent of time & place, that was a huge jump, probably the most important invention of them all. (Wonder, why almost no one mentioned it.)
A few people mentioned the related development of the printing press. I guess, writing by itself was a very limited and elite skill for a very long time. The printing press opened it up to many more people, one they learnt how to read!
But definitely, writing was an incredible development that allowed the transmission of knowledge without the hazards of the oral traditions...
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The bulb is a great invention. It facilitates the nocturnal activities, also with time it has been evolving.
It has freed up the night time hours to be productive! So was the candle!
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I'd have to go with the printing press, before the press every book and piece of literature had to be created and copied by hand which not only increased the cost of books but information was slower to spread and with a combination of those two factors a class division regarding information had formed where only those who could afford it could learn.
After the invention of the printing press information could be more easily consolidated by people of all classes. More schools could open and with cheaper books the pursuit of universal education was no longer fantasy, researchers could now easily build upon the work of others with proper documentation and journalistic publications. The availability of books also served to slowly take away power from the church and theocracy controlled countries, by encouraging freedom of thought, education and personal studies of religion.
Haha, two of you in short order with the printing press! I guess that was inevitable, as it was a huge step to be able to spread knowledge in a portable and durable form to all corners of the globe! Although as the previous commenter pointed out, it did take a little bit of time for the ability to read to spread, to be able to make the fullest use of this technology!
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Hmmmm, now this one is a tricky one. Does the invention has to be of scientific nature or can I say tampons? If I can say tampons, I say tampons :D If I can not say tampons then I will go with laser surgeries that had come a long way and really make a huge difference in medicine.
Sure, tampon! Why not... although, I can't really speak from any direct personal experience! I'm guessing it makes a huge difference not only to comfort, but to hygiene/disease (please tell me if I'm wrong, I really have not much an idea here!)... plus the direct effect on over half the human population!
Contraception would be another one that I would suggest in that case... but I'll shut up before I make an arse of myself about a topic I have no knowledge about!
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@bengy The most important invention according to me is the invention of computers, especially digital computers or general purpose computers. Over the last 10 to 12 decades, computers are ruling our world in many different forms. Personal computers, Laptops, Smartphones, tablets, gaming-consoles (x-box and PlayStation), PDA's, Supercomputers for research purposes, mini and micro computers, even the calculators are nothing but computers. The revolution of using computers convert us from our analogous world to a new digital world, where the possibilities and opportunities are huge, tremendous and uncountable. In today's world, I can clearly shout out that every human being is operating at least a single computer in any form. In fact, No one of us can survive today's world without having a computer (in any form) with us. Last but not least be ready to brace yourself for the new revolution of AI computers (Artifial Intelligennce) , which will change everything about what we thought computer are capable of!
Computers and even embedded microchips are really everywhere... it isn't just in the things that we would consider "computers" such as you describe... but even in industrial controllers... in things like cars and machines that pervade our daily lives!
AI will be a huge advance, the ability of machines and their control systems to adapt and learn from their situations will be a huge boon in efficiency!
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Fine line here between discovery and invention. There are things like 'fire' and 'electricity' that have been discovered and can be considered inventions by rights. But, if I were to go with one overall, the most important invention in history? The wheel, hands down. It has transferred into so many aspects of human evolution it's too many to list but led to things we know and use on a regular basis today like clocks, vehicles, and even several games.
Haha, you are not the first to point that out as well! But the wheel, yes a classic oldie but a goodie! Nothing like the ability to easily transport things around the place, and the idea that it can contain an infinity in a finite area is a pretty useful thing to have been able to take advantage of!
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@bengy nice work. Keep it up. Would u take a look in my blogs also? Appriciate it
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Everybody does. This is not the way to get it.
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Like, if you had actually read this post and responded to it appropriately, people would have surely been inspired to go check out your blog. But you didn't. You just posted spam.
I read it clearly mate, but I didn't know which invension to write , as I have a list of lot in my mind. Spare me some time, i m writing it. By the way absolutely sorry mate, I didn't thaught it as a spam. hope you understand. Now, can I write my contest answer in the comments?
Good stuff, thanks! I'm registering a SBI share for you now.
Lol, I was just going to ignore it, but you captured my thoughts perfectly!
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Thanks so much! Also congratulations to the other winners. Love the question this week too btw.
My pleasure!
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Oh congratulations!
It was a great debate between the 2 questions! Hahahaha but i did have fun scrolling over all the answers..
Thanks so much @bengy! More power!
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Oh congratulations!
It was a great debate between the 2 questions! Hahahaha but i did have fun scrolling over all the answers..
Thanks so much @bengy! More power!
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No problem! I think you accidentally double posted!
Yes i think so.. do forgive me...
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