What major invention would the world be better off without?

Answer 1

Gunpowder.

Answer 2

Ever since humans created inventions, there have been good uses or results, and bad uses or results. Fire can keep you warm and save your life, or it can destroy, Utensils and tools can protect you or fix things, or they can cause harm. Gasoline engines provide the greatest convenience for civilized life, but its also our greatest threat to our environment and our health and even our safety. It has its good points, but still I'd say its the gasoline engine.

Here is another thing I know is a big mistake: Plastic shopping bags. Put stuff in them and it rips and drops your items, Also, the add a lot of unnecessary waste to garbage dumps, not recycled, not bio-degradable, Just look and see how many plastic bags are getting pumped out! It adds up to TONS!!! They're so not really necessary. Its not that difficult to bring a re-usable cotton bag.

Answer 3

Nothing it seems the world only learns with mistakes. All things need to be invented. But humans (us) need to learn control and what to use. And then how to use things, change thing for better of the world.
Haha
Reminds me of a Bob Dylan song "Blowin' in the wind"
"How many times must the cannonballs fly before they are forever banned"

Answer 4

The gasoline Combustion Engine.

Answer 5

Everything that has ever been invented has been used for good.
Gunpowder is in fireworks, nuclear power lights millions of homes, Dynamite mines minerals vital to society.
Really, there is no bad invention.

Answer 6

My opinion-- the microwave.
Growing up my mom cooked wonderful meals and we kids all learned to cook too. We always sat down to dinner together, and you had better be at the table when the turkey came out of the oven. When we got a microwave that all ended because hey, we could always throw something in the microwave.

Answer 7

The gasoline powered internal combustion engine.

Answer 8

The assembly line

Answer 9

nuclear weapons, flannel underwear, itchy socks, orville redenbacher, red ballpoint pens (which are only used to make people feel bad about themself), silk bedsheets, splintery baskets, cigarettes, angry old men, methanphetamines, skateboards, wobly roller blades, roller blades in general, dental hygenists that harp at you, wheat germ, AIDS, crack cocaine, teachers who wont quit, non-skip CD players that skip, high heels, wooden clocks, humidity, de-humdifiers, humidifiers, dry skin, scaly feet, feet, onions, smelly foods, orthodontia, singapore, earthquakes, pointy things, razor blades, things that move too fast to control themselves, things that hurt in general, toothpicks, tongue depressers, korean workbooks, katakana, japanese encephilitis, LSD, LCD, band-aides that pull hair out when you take them off, arm socks, leg warmers, sweater vests, tom cruise, Cambodian literature, bosses, faucets, lights that go underneath fast moving cars, malaysian cinema, racism, mean people, MATLOCK, boring CSI epidodes, the mustache that Nick from CSI has now, the 1980's, inbreeding, west virginia, nepalese revolutionaries, things that break iPods, computer viruses, bullies, electric dog collars, creepy japanese fetishes, poorly made subtitles, modern art, orphans, dirty water, puppy mills, eyebrow pencils, paper mache and the ability to lie.

Answer 10

nuclear power