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Asked by speedyads to Claire, Kate, Matt, Rob, Sam on 14 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by rider491.
Question: What is the best invention ever
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Sam Geen answered on 14 Jun 2013:
Honestly, sometimes the most boring things are the most important. Farming meant that people settled down and built cities, which created the first civilisations. The printing press meant that everyone could have access to books, and hence could learn what someone on the other side of the world who died hundreds of years ago had to say. Modern medicine means that people live longer and are healthier than ever before. So sure, rockets and lasers are awesome, but sometimes the boring inventions are more useful.
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Robert Woolfson answered on 15 Jun 2013:
Writing. Without writing we would probably have no science, no arts in any form we can recognize, no real sense of history or language. In short, without writing we wouldn’t be living life as we know it.
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Matthew Pankhurst answered on 15 Jun 2013:
A traditional answer is “the wheel”. This simple thing started all our engineering, which has turbo-charged our species into changing the world around us.
It’s the simple ideas that are often the best 🙂 -
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Claire Lee answered on 17 Jun 2013:
“In 1989, CERN invented the World Wide Web to transmit important information between smart people, and the world has been using it for the exact opposite ever since.”
(One of my favourite quotes from http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-ridiculous-things-people-believe-about-god-particle/)
On a more serious note, I know you probably all hate it, but math was pretty important too. Without a number system and logic base science is just philosophy, and we would have no financial system or economics.
Though cake is a good answer too. Now I want cake….
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speedyads commented on :
Thanks for that Guys
speedyads commented on :
Thats really cool