2006-09-18 03:04:46 · 22 answers · asked by soar 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
The computer -- it has really changed our day-to-day lives. You can argue either way to weather the changes are positive or negative.
2006-09-18 03:13:46 · answer #1 · answered by thatgirl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Language and linguistics- the ability to encode information. That led to the development of so many other essential tools. Electricity and fire were discoveries, not inventions.
The wheel is a pretty important invention, too, but I don't think we'd have been able to develop it without language.
Indoor plumbing has made a lot of modern life possible, but I can't be sure from one day to the next if modern life is a great thing or a horrible disaster.
I'm going with communication.
2006-09-18 03:21:42 · answer #2 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll go with the wheel. The answer that says it should be "language" is very good, but language wasn't an invention. You can't have an inventor saying "Let's have . . . LANGUAGE!" until he has a language to say it in or think it in. Language just evolved, but the wheel was invented. And fire is important too, but it occurred naturally from lightning strikes in forests.
2006-09-18 04:58:10 · answer #3 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The greatest invention of all time = human being
2006-09-18 03:12:25 · answer #4 · answered by Bernard C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The wheel, so many other great inventions never would have come to be without the wheel first being invented.
2006-09-18 03:53:32 · answer #5 · answered by simplyrelaxinginblvl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you may not believe but few years ago the scientests decided that the greatest invention was the Toilet because it enabled the people to settle in one place and make the CITY
2006-09-18 03:14:36 · answer #6 · answered by s_fouad 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gotta be the wheel. It helped every one in every way and wasn't invented for money either, but survival as a convienance.
2006-09-18 03:10:20 · answer #7 · answered by kekeke 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wheel
2006-09-18 03:06:15 · answer #8 · answered by A 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe most would possibly point to something electronic. Perhaps the computer for the usage we can get out of all its forms in one day, to make life easier perhaps.
Or even T.V, that we might not be blinded by the environment around us, but to see other parts of the world without going there. But for myself, it is the printer, with out it, i wouldn't have my Bible ;)
2006-09-18 03:15:25 · answer #9 · answered by Hero-Of-Ages 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course Hand Phone..
2006-09-18 03:13:29 · answer #10 · answered by Drone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋