Your opinion, on most important defined by their most impact on the nature of the society of the world. Mostly the western world.
2006-10-05 18:27:49 · 25 answers · asked by Perseus 3 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
lightbulb, phone, tv, car, plane ... only 5?
2006-10-05 18:35:30 · answer #1 · answered by warriorn639mr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to say:
cell phones, esp those with camera abilities and cams
*you can take a picture and transmit it anywhere in the world or put the cam on and view a medical procedure in another country!
the internet especially wireless along with laptops so you can connect anywhere with no wires or phone
DVD's and CDS
magnetic radio's, flashlights and other appliances this is becoming a major boom, imagine using these appliances in situations like hurricane katrina where people have no power for a month?
electricity and the ability to generate power without it like with the solar power and windmills, there are actually battery powered lightbulbs now, if we can get the magnetic power into lights that would be even cooler!
2006-10-06 01:48:31 · answer #2 · answered by Tina of Lymphland.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Antibiotics - the birth of moden medicine
Nuclear Weapons - ended WWII and shaped the world ever since
Television - 1-way information on a worldwide basis
Airplane - Travel on a worldwide basis
The Internet - 2-way information on a worldwide basis
2006-10-06 03:32:39 · answer #3 · answered by ZenPenguin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's easy:
1) All medical advances
2) Hair Gel
3) Mobile phone
4) Botox injections
5) Cheap air-travel
2006-10-06 04:17:05 · answer #4 · answered by simon2blues 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air conditioning is definitely underrated when it comes to it's impact on society. AC enabled previously sleepy tropical backwaters to become bustling centers of commerce. The southward migration from the rustbelt to the sunbelt transformed American society and politics. Cities like Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore etc., would never be the bustling places they are today without AC.
2006-10-06 01:43:49 · answer #5 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Information/Communication Technology (computers, mobile phones, pagers, space satellites)
2. Medicine (Stem Cells, HIV cure,antidotes)
3. Global Warming and Climate Change (Environmental Degradation, Plastic wares)
4. Sex Change
5. Transportation (Airplanes,Rockets, Space crafts, submarines)
2006-10-06 01:44:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Electricity No.1 by far, Crude Oil - as electricity is produced from this aswell as petrol, tyres, glue, 1000`s and 1000`s of products, telephone/mobile, Aeroplane/ships and gravity.
Women will say Make-up, sorry just had to put that one in!
2006-10-06 01:42:20 · answer #7 · answered by Logic is Limited to thought 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Internet, Post it note, Velcro, Contact lenses, Febreeze
2006-10-06 02:10:32 · answer #8 · answered by spongebbob79 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Computers, the Internet, the cell phone, the space shuttle, nuclear weapons
2006-10-06 01:38:28 · answer #9 · answered by wuxxler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nuclear reactor
The aeroplane
Orbital and geostationary satellites
The silicon chip
Digital-data storage
(and 6th ther Donner Kebab)
2006-10-06 08:35:21 · answer #10 · answered by trooperdoom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intel Processor - almost every individual or family has a computer.
Television - there are more televisions than there are cars
Insulin - without it there would be many very sick or dead people
Electricity - very few countries do without it
Automobile - where do they not have vehicles of all sizes, shapes and uses
2006-10-06 01:40:41 · answer #11 · answered by PP4865 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋