THE Invention in Your Lifetime
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mullanphylane
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What single thing, invented during your lifetime, has had the most impact either on your life or society as a whole?
Handheld solid-state calculator, the predecessor of the personal computer. Not permitted in geometry and other mathematics classes when I was in high school - we had to use a slide rule.
Handheld solid-state calculator, the predecessor of the personal computer. Not permitted in geometry and other mathematics classes when I was in high school - we had to use a slide rule.
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Internet.2
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It's either the wheel or rocks as weapons.
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Covid-190
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Internet.1
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Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.
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that_night_in_paris wrote: »Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.
..... this right here should probably be the end of this thread; it damn sure should.1 -
that_night_in_paris wrote: »Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.
Is it weird that I see some type of bizarro species of fish?2 -
that_night_in_paris wrote: »Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.
Is it weird that I see some type of bizarro species of fish?
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I can’t think of, or remember anything that impacted society but this was the first thing that popped into my head ...the Walkman
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George Foreman grill was big for me. Probably not so much for society.0
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Older than my lifetime .....but still relevant: Antibiotics1
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Idk how any gen x-er or older could say anything other than Internet. so many following inventions depended on that one. It changed everything1
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It's hard to image anything more impactful on the world than the internet.0
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It's hard to image anything more impactful on the world than the internet.
This is true.
It's changed most everything, right?
I mean, if it wasn't for the internet, I wouldn't be able to spend time here chatting with folks from all over the wor....
Dang.
I hate this internet thing. Damn you Al Gore.0 -
CD players
I got REEEEAL tired of rewinding tapes0 -
GettinLean19 wrote: »CD players
I got REEEEAL tired of rewinding tapes
@GettinLean19
did you ever rewind the cassettes with a pencil just to save the walkman's batteries ??0
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