...... and put a stop to an invention being created, what would it be and why?
2007-04-29 18:32:40 · 14 answers · asked by kimison_au 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Just so you all know, this was just a simple question. I wasnt trying to condone a rift in history or 'quash' peoples inventions..
2007-04-29 19:06:07 · update #1
the autodialer that telemarketers use. The more time they have to spend dialing numbers manually the less time they have to annoy as many people as possible during dinner.
2007-04-29 18:37:18 · answer #1 · answered by Panda 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Most major inventions that have changed the world have both a good side and a bad side, which is why progress in human history has always been slow and painful. People always resist what is new and different and hate to give up the "old ways". For example for a question like this I would probably say something along the lines of the telephone or, god forbid, the internet. Both obviously have been huge positives on society but we as humans are becoming more and more disconnected from each other and real human contact is becoming harder and harder to find.
2007-04-30 01:40:23 · answer #2 · answered by Chad B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would that be like burning books so that the people will be oppressed? I would never change history by stopping the creation of an invention. Each invention is created by original thought and should never be quashed but encouraged.
2007-04-30 02:03:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The guillotine. Not exactly a humane way of execution. Second would be nuclear weapons. Though it may have hastened the end to WWII, this living in fear of 'the bomb' for the past 60 years has just not been worth it. Currently, look at all the trouble the world is going through trying to prevent this country or that country from attaining those weapons. Just not worth the trouble.
2007-04-30 09:59:16 · answer #4 · answered by Bob Mc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The damn Internet! Don't we all waste way too much time on it?! If the Internet was never invented I'd be doing something productive right now. I'm being facetious, but not entirely!
2007-04-30 02:00:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, because no matter how much you know, even the tiniest tweak in history would radically alter everything in ways we don't know and can't know. Trust me, it would be a mistake. I mean, it might work out for the better, but you wouldn't be there to see it because the ripple affect would have changed your genetic combinations and therefore someone else would be 'you'. If it wasn't better, well, then not only are you not there to see it but we're all (we're all meaning entirely different people) worse off than before!
2007-04-30 01:40:47 · answer #6 · answered by fslcaptain737 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Federal Reserve, Communism and McDonald's.
2007-04-30 04:33:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would not stop any invention. It wouldn't do any good. Someone else would just invent it later.
But, if I could, I would keep the bible from being written. What a steaming pile of crap!
2007-04-30 01:44:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Multi-variable calculus
-Bill
2007-04-30 01:41:21 · answer #9 · answered by Bill 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nuclear power.
2007-04-30 01:37:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋