What according to you is the most important innovation/invention in the last ten years?

Question

What according to you is the most important innovation/invention in the last ten years? Provide appropriate reasoning for your conclusion?

Answer 1

A Decade of Innovation
Advances in the Treatment of Rare Diseases

In the last decade, biopharmaceutical companies have made great progress in the fight against rare diseases. Over 160 drugs were approved during the past decade to treat rare or “orphan” diseases, and according to the NIH, there are 6,000-7,000 rare diseases affecting over 25 million Americans.

“A Decade of Innovation:
Advances in the Treatment of Rare Diseases”
Click here to download the full report.
http://www.innovation.org/index.cfm/NewsCenter/Briefings/A_Decade_of_Innovation

Answer 2

almost certainly the most important invention in the last ten years still remains to be recognized for its importance.
historically it takes a long time for something to become known by the general public
eg when do people think the internet was invented

Answer 3

I would say mobile phones.
Everytime i go out or my kids leave for somewhere i think.. how was it possibly like when kids were unreachable for many hours whether in school or at practice or with friends. It is definitely a blessing for every parent.

Answer 4

Nano technology.

Answer 5

cars using water instead of gasoline...

saves us from global warming

Answer 6

medical cure for cancer!