| LIFE What do you think is the most influential invention from the past 100 years?

[TerryP]

What do you think is the most influential invention from the past 100 years?​

 

[rick4bama]

sliced bread 1928.

 

[sean]

The internet...or, more appropriately, the world wide web.

 

[TerryP]

The internet...or, more appropriately, the world wide web.

That's where I'm leaning.

Penicillin?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Influentional? Over the last 100 years, TV has eclipsed radio and remains relevant enough to keep the internet at bay in this span of time.

Medically, penicillin and antibiotics in general. People today can’t grasp that an infected blister 100 years ago was a death sentence. See Coolidge’s son in 1924.

Medicine and the printed word are on par over this time. An argument for military advances in this time (aviation, radar, targeting, nuclear) could eliminate all of these.

It’s been a great, and frightening, century.

 

[Krimson]

Computers

 

[OldPlayer]

Computers

More specifically, the personal computer.

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

iPhone

 

[TerryP]

iPhone

Explain this one to me.

It's a phone, and a computer. Both of which pre-date Apple.

 

[Rsedge72]

Water treatment
Granted tea is credited with saving millions for the fact that boiling the water cleaned it. Yet the treatment of water “supplies” is still a relatively new concept, in the grand scheme of things…


Or………….

Yoga pants!!!!!!!

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

Explain this one to me.

It's a phone, and a computer. Both of which pre-date Apple.

It changed society. How we communicate, spend our time, interact. Social media would be another decent answer to me.

sent from Android

 

[OldPlayer]

A US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.