20th century saw great changes. What is one change should be remembered about the 20th century. Reason?

Answer 1

I think the invention of the computer, particularly the personal computer. This has transformed the way we work, the way we live, the way many things work and the ways we communicate.

Answer 2

I'm a boomer and was there, I think it had many advantages to today. 1. We had real causes to believe in, Peace! Justice! Freedom!, today when things are getting worse by the moment kids just sitting around drinking beer, as if none of this affects them. 2. Our music - The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Mo Town - all of it much more original then the currently popular bands. Also the "Roots" musicians in blues, jazz and country were still active and did concerts and records. 3. Generally more interesting drugs - more hallucinogens less speed. Heroin was as bad as anything today thiugh. 4. Constantly growing economy - we all did better than we expected. With the Bush stagflation coming I'm afraid my daughter and her boyfriend won't do nearly as well as my wife and I.

Answer 3

The Internet is an invention, not a change.

The biggest change that will forever impact the world and its various cultures is THE MULTINATIONAL CONGLOMERATE.

No longer are we bound by nationalism. We pride ourselves in working with others in order to grow. Gone are the days of empires, and sectarian rule.

We invest in others as they invest in us. Therefore, we continually rely on each others success.

This we should always remember, for if our generation or the generations that follow forget, it will be the end of humanity as we know it.

Answer 4

I would say the wide-spread distribution of electricity. Think where we'd be without Tesla's AC theories?

Answer 5

Wow, there are so many possibilities here...I've answered it several times now and I keep changing my answer....I'd say space travel...it's fascinating and full of so mystery. Now personally, I'd say the computer...it allows me to have a conversation with someone thousands of miles away...I am meeting people I'd never have had the chance to meet if I didn't have the computer and Internet...but I still say space travel...lol.

Answer 6

The internet!

Answer 7

Sheep cloning. - well cloning (not just sheep, it's just the perverts that are happy with that)

It'll open up huge possibilities for mankind, and it was a Scottish scientist who did it (about 10 miles from my house as well!)

Answer 8

one which is created in 20th and caries on and it is climate change which is affecting our lives and is going to effect more and more.

Answer 9

The internet....it made the world a village

Answer 10

OK, you've never heard of this, it is gonna sound wonky and nerdy --but it's big, and it'll be bigger in the 21st century...

Back in the late 1920's and early 1930's there was this guy named Montgomery. He studies probability and statistical tables and came up with a new way of evaluating hands and bidding in contract bridge (a game that was so complex it was dying out).

A lawyer named Charles H. Goren picked up this system and popularized it and sold it to the card playing public. Most people know it as the "Goren point count bridge bidding system."

So there it is --the Montgomery/Goren bridge bidding revolution.

So what? How could that possibly be the most important change in the 20th century? Because there are over 635 billion possible bridge hands. But you can learn the bidding method in one day. It's a method for almost certainly guessing the right bid, it's the crown jewel of a new kind of mathematics and problem solving.

If we get a handle on the environment and how to stabilize it, it will be through copies and clones of this kind of logic. Curing cancer may involve applications of this kind of approach. Eliminating statism and dictatorship in the world will probably involve thinking like this (many of the WW2 codebreakers and spymasters were expert bridge players!).

Drum roll. The envelope, please. Get ready to give me the 10 points. Along with some academians (names available on request), this accomplishment also showed, through guessing the wise bid through a heuristic method -- that Descartes and Plato were wrong.

And that's big, that's a revolution. And we need that revolution to clean up this planet before it turns into a garbage dump by the end of the 21st century.