which invention has changed the world today?

Question

give the best invention that has changed every thing.

just think about electricity and electronics, all works on power isnt that made a radical change in all future inventions?

Answer 1

Technical explosion of computers/computer chips/software - they are now everywhere. A cell phone is very similar to a rather simple laptop. It has a CPU, memory, power supply, operating system, user interface, keyboard, microphone, speaker, function buttons, ability for external communication on a network, and it performs a variety of specialized functions. It has just been created to be as small as possible and have features needed for cell phone use. GPS tracking devices etc the same way - all computer based technology specialized for a given task.

Computers run your car at optimal safety and efficiency, your laundry, your grocery bill, inventories, accounting, GPS, medical records and test results, IRS and other tax reporting, all government files and information about everything from communable diseases to secret wiretap records, prison inmate records, real estate and civil and criminal records, financial records, digital photos, texting, chat rooms, YouTube, online services, and everthing else on the internet, cell phones, digital video, video games, ipod, mp3, DVDs, tivo, HDTV, school records, birth records, licenses, traffic tickets, credit history, factory automation, on-line auctions and shopping, UPC pricing, tracking of UPS and other mail shipments, and everything else that you could print or draw on paper or can think or picture mentally it's been most likely already implemented using computer technolofy.

In the last 30 years the world has completely become dependent on computer technology in its various forms.

Answer 2

Yes electricity has had a huge influence on our moder society but for the best invention one would have to look into the past. What about the plain old wheel? With out it, how would the coal get to the power house to make the electricity or how would the turbines turn? I guess if you want to look at life that way then perhaps you should look at the introduction of oxygen to our atmosphere. That's kind of a good one there to hua?

Answer 3

Airplane -- can now get anywhere in the world within 24 hours Plastics -- everything from storage containers to IV tubing to household goods to lightweight components for computers/cars/planes, etc. Guns -- ability to kill from a distance Smallpox vaccine -- greatly increased the world population (the vaccine was the invention) Microscope Automobile

Answer 4

The website "The Edge":
http://www.edge.org/
had a debate on that a few years ago.
IIRC, they concluded it was the Horse Collar (developed in China in the 5th century AD, and spread across Europe by the 7th-8th century AD). Before the horse collar, horses pulled ploughs by their neck, or by their tail (depending where you tied the rope); the horse collar meant they took the weight on their shoulders and chest. This roughly quadrupled the yield of horse-ploughed agricultural land, and (therefore) quadrupled the population.

Higher population density means more subsequent innovation (allowing industry and education), so (they allege) few if any of the subsequent "great inventions/discoveries" (antibiotics, the internet, etc) would have arisen.

Answer 5

I think it must be "Sliced Bread".
Why?
Because when anybody ever creates a new invention, or has the latest greatest new idea, people inevitably always say...."It's the greatest thing since Sliced Bread."
Since this is the case then, obviously sliced bread is the greatest invention ever.

Answer 6

I definitely have to go with the Internet. Think about it, everything is online these days, and the technology is only continuing to advance.

Answer 7

The internal combustion engine has given us almost unlimited mobility.

Answer 8

Charles Babbage... and Alan Turin...

babbage built it and 250 years later Turin developed algorithms... that made it all possible...

neither of these guys were american, they were ENGLISH...

Answer 9

Computer, hands down.

Answer 10

computer and Internet