🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 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.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

A US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

That fits the bill in several categories - self-reliance, projecting power, transcendent technology. I recently finished Who Can Hold the Sea, the final book, completed by his wife and published posthumously, by James Hornfischer. I would offer that the nuclear submarine is at least an equal to the carrier.

If anyone has an interest in WWII naval history, I can't recommend Hornfischer's work more highly. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, The Fleet at Flood Tide, Neptune's Inferno, they are all outstanding and likely available through thriftbooks.com.

Hornfischer passed away from brain cancer several years ago, in his fifties; he was around my age at the time. With an already full life he was ready to leap forward, yet his life being cut short is something I've difficulty reconciling. I was pre-med for a few years (feel free to toss the Animal House references in at this point), and I worked throughout college as an orderly at Shelby Medical Center in Alabaster. Minimum wage was 3.15-3.35 during my college years, and they paid me 5.50 an hour, so even when I moved to business I kept the job. I worked double shifts every Sat-Sun, and they paid me time and a half for my second shift, so I worked 32 hours every weekend and got paid for 40. Admittedly, I'd usually sleep through my 8am Monday course, but I managed. An orderly was a part of the cardiac code team, responsible for chest compressions. I did chest compressions on dozens of patients; we lost most in the ER due to the time the patient was down without treatment. We did better with CCU and cardiac cath patients who coded.

I say all this to remember a patient who lost consciousness right in front of the hospital. Jimmy Stagner, 38, if I recall correctly from Chilton County. He told his wife he didn't feel well and wanted her to drive. His episode began in front of the hospital, she had him at our door in 90 seconds. He was a big man, barrel-chested and it was an effort to do effective compressions. The RNs would try to spell me but they couldn't do them, and I did compressions for over two hours before the ER MD called it. I was drenched from it, and sore for a week, from the ordeal. An autopsy revealed he had a massive widow maker coronary and would've died if he'd been on the table at UAB. It didn't change my perspective. When I turned 38, I remembered Jimmy Stagner. When I thought of the loss of Horfischer, I remembered Jimmy Stagner.

We never know what's in store for us. Sometimes the losses around us mold us more than the gains.

Sorry for the departure.

 

[XXL TideFan]

That fits the bill in several categories - self-reliance, projecting power, transcendent technology. I recently finished Who Can Hold the Sea, the final book, completed by his wife and published posthumously, by James Hornfischer. I would offer that the nuclear submarine is at least an equal to the carrier.

If anyone has an interest in WWII naval history, I can't recommend Hornfischer's work more highly. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, The Fleet at Flood Tide, Neptune's Inferno, they are all outstanding and likely available through thriftbooks.com.

Hornfischer passed away from brain cancer several years ago, in his fifties; he was around my age at the time. With an already full life he was ready to leap forward, yet his life being cut short is something I've difficulty reconciling. I was pre-med for a few years (feel free to toss the Animal House references in at this point), and I worked throughout college as an orderly at Shelby Medical Center in Alabaster. Minimum wage was 3.15-3.35 during my college years, and they paid me 5.50 an hour, so even when I moved to business I kept the job. I worked double shifts every Sat-Sun, and they paid me time and a half for my second shift, so I worked 32 hours every weekend and got paid for 40. Admittedly, I'd usually sleep through my 8am Monday course, but I managed. An orderly was a part of the cardiac code team, responsible for chest compressions. I did chest compressions on dozens of patients; we lost most in the ER due to the time the patient was down without treatment. We did better with CCU and cardiac cath patients who coded.

I say all this to remember a patient who lost consciousness right in front of the hospital. Jimmy Stagner, 38, if I recall correctly from Chilton County. He told his wife he didn't feel well and wanted her to drive. His episode began in front of the hospital, she had him at our door in 90 seconds. He was a big man, barrel-chested and it was an effort to do effective compressions. The RNs would try to spell me but they couldn't do them, and I did compressions for over two hours before the ER MD called it. I was drenched from it, and sore for a week, from the ordeal. An autopsy revealed he had a massive widow maker coronary and would've died if he'd been on the table at UAB. It didn't change my perspective. When I turned 38, I remembered Jimmy Stagner. When I thought of the loss of Horfischer, I remembered Jimmy Stagner.

We never know what's in store for us. Sometimes the losses around us mold us more than the gains.

Sorry for the departure.

 

[24and7]

The Nintendo video game..

 

[Justneedme81]

automobile?

 

[PurlJam]

Atomic bomb.

 

[footballer]

RTB

 

[TerryP]

RTB

This would be an example of evolution, not innovation.

 

[rick4bama]

Party Line!