What was the most important invention in modern history? How the world would be without it?
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What was the most important invention in modern history? How the world would be without it?
It depends what you mean by modern history. Within the last 100 years or so, or further back?
The last 300 years.
The computer and nothing else even remotely comes close.
The Hindu-Arabic numeral system. This is what paved way for precision which made modern engineering possible.
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Well in that case, precision engineering. I don't know how to describe it but the moment we began to be autistic about precision, everything changed.
One arguement I've heard is the lathe. Falls under
Modern is a ridiculously broad term. If it's 100 years, then it would be the internet. If 500 years, steam engine. If 1000 years, probably banking system. In 1500 years? Probably gunpowder.
> the electric generator
> the transistor
Those are the two which have had the broadest consequence.
was reading that the electricity turbines of any power grid oil or coal -> steam -> turbines. Those turbines, the design of = exactly as they were 100 years ago.
the SSD (solid state drive)
IQfy
That process that extracts fixed nitrogen from the air. Haber-[something].
weed
Anhydrous ammonia
(for fertilizer, made the population explosion possible just as the industrial revolution was gaining momentum)
Linux
Chainlink
The steam engine?
Electricity. Not even close
Humans didn't invent electricity. We use it. That's like calling water our greatest invention. Name a specific invention which involves the use of electricity.
Printing press
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Calculus. Fight me.
Not an invention mathcel.
>transports your goods and smuggles your prostitutes
It's the computer. Delegating all of our computing work to the machine is what has catapulted us into this extreme wealth. Only the internet really comes close in terms of impact