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Old 11-23-2010, 12:05 AM
 
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- What invention do you think is the most important? And how come?

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Old 11-23-2010, 01:04 AM
 
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The inside flush toilet, plumbing.
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Old 11-23-2010, 11:34 AM
 
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DNA and RNA. It's basically a way of passing information. It makes the development of complex life (and correspondingly, intelligent life) an inevitability.

After that, most of the big technological breakthroughs do not come from inventions, but from changes in outlook and perspective.

In the last four-thousand years or so, the biggest "invention" is skeptical, analytical thought that was created in Ancient in Greece and honed in Ancient Rome.

Coming in a close second is the invention of the scientific method. It makes it easier for an "average person" to make important discoveries.

So most important inventions,
1) DNA
2) Western, analytical thought
3) Scientific Method
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Old 11-23-2010, 01:35 PM
 
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Alternating current.
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Old 11-24-2010, 08:27 PM
 
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God was the most important invention of mankind.

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Mcredux, who invented DNA? What was life like before it was invented?
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Old 11-24-2010, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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The Thermos.
I mean, hey: it keps hot stuff hot and cold stuff cold!
How does it know?
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Old 04-03-2022, 04:40 PM
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Computers with Internet for Luxury!

Anything else just feels like a TV. Or obvious things made from the beginning such as food, furniture, or trees.
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Old 04-03-2022, 04:52 PM
 
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Wheel
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Old 04-04-2022, 10:57 AM
 
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Stereo
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