Is the internet the most important of human kind's inventions/discoveries? Fire, the wheel, writing, air flight, are these more significant? One great invention leads to more doors open to recreate society.
Is the internet the most important of human kind's inventions/discoveries? Fire, the wheel, writing, air flight, are these more significant? One great invention leads to more doors open to recreate society.
Probably electricity. Or the discovery and harnessing of it.
Agriculture is the greatest invention of all time. And ultimately the worst invention as well.
sexbots but the prud mods keeps deleting it.
Internet is causing the polarization of the country thus leading to the next civil war. The internet invites the government into your personal life: Ref, 1984, by George Orwell.
The invention of professional sports, specifically football, has done more to placate the masses and prevent World War 3.
More than medical science and physics and all that?
You have to control the masses and tax the crap out of them in order to fund research. Wars are very bad for useful research. Penicillin wasn't invented until after the atomic bomb.
Spam! The ability to can food and to have edible food available during times of famine (or nuclear war) without the need of refrigeration.
Almost. It would be if you could put pictures of nekkid ladies on it.
Sorry the answer is religion
Written language
Yoga pants
Some great ones:
Wheel
Transistor
Plastic
Vaccines
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Is the internet the most important of human kind's inventions/discoveries? Fire, the wheel, writing, air flight, are these more significant? One great invention leads to more doors open to recreate society.
Fire and flight were not invented by humans, so they are out of contention.
Writing is a good contender. Wheel.
Gear.
Piston.
Semiconductor.
Digital computation.
I think writing wins, because it allows us to build on everything that came before, as in‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ quote that Google Scholar uses. Writing puts a ratchet in the process of invention itself.
Penicillin was first discovered in 1928 and the first atom bomb test wasn’t until 1945. Facts can be looked up, don’t be lazy or ignorant.
Pizza
Corn was created over the course of thousands of years by genius Mesoamericans who took a simple blade of grass and turned it into a giant juicy ear of corn. Nobody knows how they did it! Right up there with the pyramids for ancient tech.
Worse invention ever for humanity. The greatest invention ever is the wheel.
One of the greatest. Allows people all over the world to gather and discus how everyone faster is a doper, everyone slower is a hobby jogger.
Blows my mind that kids today are growing up with the collective knowledge of humanity at their fingertips.
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Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
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