THE Invention in Your Lifetime

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mullanphylane
mullanphylane Posts: 172 Member
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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.
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  • ZenDream
    ZenDream Posts: 208 Member
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    Internet.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,492 Member
    edited May 2020
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    It's either the wheel or rocks as weapons.





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  • GoJohnGo71
    GoJohnGo71 Posts: 439 Member
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    Covid-19
  • SuzySunshine99
    SuzySunshine99 Posts: 2,983 Member
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    Internet.
  • that_night_in_paris
    that_night_in_paris Posts: 457 Member
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    Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.

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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,492 Member
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    that_night_in_paris wrote: »
    Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.

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    ..... this right here should probably be the end of this thread; it damn sure should.
  • ZenDream
    ZenDream Posts: 208 Member
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    that_night_in_paris wrote: »
    Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.

    choco-taco-ice-cream.png?x14477

    Is it weird that I see some type of bizarro species of fish?
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,492 Member
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    ZenDream wrote: »
    that_night_in_paris wrote: »
    Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.

    choco-taco-ice-cream.png?x14477

    Is it weird that I see some type of bizarro species of fish?

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  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
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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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  • that_night_in_paris
    that_night_in_paris Posts: 457 Member
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    vanityy99 wrote: »
    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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    That's not a Walkman, kiddo.
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,467 Member
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    George Foreman grill was big for me. Probably not so much for society.
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
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    that_night_in_paris wrote: »
    vanityy99 wrote: »
    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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    That's not a Walkman, kiddo.

    Oops
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  • Diatonic12
    Diatonic12 Posts: 32,344 Member
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    Older than my lifetime .....but still relevant: Antibiotics
  • TwitchyMacGee
    TwitchyMacGee Posts: 3,120 Member
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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 everything
  • ZenDream
    ZenDream Posts: 208 Member
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    It's hard to image anything more impactful on the world than the internet.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,492 Member
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    ZenDream wrote: »
    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.
  • GettinLean19
    GettinLean19 Posts: 452 Member
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    CD players

    I got REEEEAL tired of rewinding tapes
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,492 Member
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    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 ??

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