02-26-2003, 03:55 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Apr 2007
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What was the last brand new invention that rocked the world?
We were talking about this subject at work.
What was the last new invention that changed the world, or at least impacted it greatly?
Not an improvement over a current item, but a brand new thing?
The cotton gin? Transistor? Light bulb? PDA?
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02-26-2003, 04:27 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 1,023
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The Segway, of course! :lol:
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02-26-2003, 05:02 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 248
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Internal Combustion Engine
Either the Internal Combustion Engine or the microprocessor. The question is really impossible to answer since everything is an improvement over something that came before it...that's just how we work. For all the environmentalist gripe about the internal combustion engine we should really appreciate just how much this invention has done for us. What seperates us from the Romans? I'd say Ben Franklin and his hobby electricity. The microprocessor is certainly the driving force behind technological change right now.
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02-26-2003, 05:16 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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Plastic, the publicly-held corporation, and Spam.
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02-26-2003, 05:20 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 405
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whatever it is, Al Gore invented it 
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02-26-2003, 06:38 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 116
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Sliced bread??? :lol:
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02-26-2003, 06:43 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 366
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My votes go to:
Duct tape and velcro
KCT
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02-26-2003, 06:48 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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That's a tough one...
GPS - no, just a new twist on navigation...
Space Shuttle - no, just a new twist on space flight...
Nukes - no, just a new twist on weapons...
The list goes on, and on...
What has been introduced that isn't a take off on something that already exists???
Oh well, my vote: the microwave oven and the TV remote (so, I'm a couch potato)...
Steve
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02-26-2003, 09:51 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 405
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the clapper 
c'mon.....you gotta admit.....you're hearing the song in your head right now
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02-26-2003, 09:55 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Originally Posted by ux4484
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If you want to go there, how about "The Companion"? "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!" :lol:
Seriously, your comment about Al Gore was closest to the mark: I say the Internet.
--janak
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