What inventions or discoveries have had the greatest impact on society and culture in the past 20 years? I'm thinking 9-11 and the internet, but that's not all that has happened since 86. Think back to your big hair days and help me out!!! :)
2006-12-04 16:01:46 · 13 answers · asked by asleep 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Sorry, I should have clarified that. It's more of what social, technological, or political event or invention in the last 20 years has had the most effect on culture. I do not think 9-11 was an invention.... :)
2006-12-04 16:10:06 · update #1
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
2006-12-04 16:25:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The GREATEST single invention of the past 20 years is microtransistors. A thousand of these on your finger would look like dust, yet they enable computers to make billions of calculations per second. The Internet benefits from this. The fact that web pages don't take minutes to load anymore, even though they contain ten times as much information on them these days, is directly related to this.
Without these, we'd be back to the bigger blocky computers. The iPOD would be much larger. Cell phones would be back to the brick size they started at. Dual-Core processors would be quite large if realistic at all.
Curious as to how u figure 9-11 is an invention.
EDIT: Ahh! Makes sense now. I would agree 9-11 has had a major impact on society and culture. Not only in the US but abroad as well. Yeah I'd have to agree with that one as being possibly the greatest impact (and for many years to come).
2006-12-04 16:07:30 · answer #2 · answered by Aegis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yet that ought to come third. on the grounds that gadgets which include the cellular telephone and the microwave have mixed advantages, i ought to bypass for some small mundane issues which have benefited tens of millions. before each and everything, the ballpoint pen. Laszlo Biro's invention has inspired this kind of vast quantity of more advantageous human beings to write down more advantageous typically, and larger suited, because it has performed away with the favor for inkwells and ink bottles. i experience ink's potential to get everywhere from a bottle or inkwell spawned the first face painters (and they are really not on a listing of excellent adult males!). Secondly, velcro. What a genius George de Mestral might want to were to come back up with some thing so elementary, yet so useful! The youngest can draw close it, as can the oldest and maximum infirm. i imagine simplicity spawns many of the perfect ideas, ones which impact on maximum persons's lives
2016-11-30 03:56:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out Glenn Beck's Podcast on iTunes,Sick Twisted Freak,He says the best inventions of 2006.
2006-12-04 16:10:32 · answer #4 · answered by mailman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Digital Camera
2006-12-04 16:12:04 · answer #5 · answered by Nishu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having read all the answers so far I am a bit amazed that no one thought of fibre optics. Without this there would have been no Internet, no high speed communications, no digitalisation. I wonder why people are so menatlly handicapped.
2006-12-04 17:02:05 · answer #6 · answered by majorcavalry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Internet & telephone banking... beats standing in long ques to cash a lousy cheque any day!
satellite navigation.. the installation of these satellites help fight crime too when locating stolen vehicles, etc.
2006-12-04 16:08:42 · answer #7 · answered by Claude 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Self-adhesive stamps. Remember the taste of the old ones?
2006-12-04 16:04:57 · answer #8 · answered by cell-hell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The widespread digitization of music and video.
2006-12-04 16:04:37 · answer #9 · answered by DavidNH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cell phones - no doubt! #2 is navigation installed in cars or OnStar.
2006-12-04 16:05:55 · answer #10 · answered by Meems 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋