What was the best invention or innovation in the past 20 years?

Answer 1

Computers are 70 years old- look up Turing Machines.
The Internet is 25 years old.
The World Wide Web is about 14 years old which began everything we do today like web-based email, web applications, multimedia, search engines etc. Before that it was gopher which is like today's newsgroups.
The mapping of the human genome is about 5 years old- which is leading to todays greater knowledge of hereditary diseases and inherited traits and basically the key to understanding who we are.

Answer 2

Having a similar technologies is amazingly unlikely if not impossible, given what's at the instant in the pipeline of prototypes and pre-production. The optimist in me sees doable nuclear fusion coming on line, affordable skill with minimum pollution, self-conscious robots, nanotechnology (nanites) waiting to reprocess trash and contaminated land into functional products. area elevators, commerce with colonies in the asteroids, easy sails and ion-power interstellar probes. each and every of the Sci-Fi stuff. The pessimist sees an financial and social crash further on via worldwide warming, overpopulation and source depletion, leaving a depleted inhabitants making use of a dwindling inventory of severe-tech contraptions they won't be able to reproduce or restoration (the Mad Max subject). yet not, possibly, in as short as 50 years.

Answer 3

The Internet, without the Internet the PC would be a platform for programs and games. Before the Internet we used to read newspapers, magazines and go to post offices, and go to libraries. Now they're are relics of a bygone age.

Answer 4

There's so many of them the hard drives for computers, Internet,medical,cars and trucks last longer,we can go on and on there are so many in the pass 20 years.

Answer 5

The Internet. Completely changed the way our world works.

Answer 6

Hi. Nanotechnology and genetic understanding.

Answer 7

the internet

Answer 8

IKEA furniture

Answer 9

definately.......COMPUTERS!