50 Innovations: Including Fire

that's a pretty tough question.

you could say something like "computers" but what about everything that needed to be invented for a computer to work?

It is the internet. For the same reason the printing press was the most important invention of the last millenium. Information could be spread throughout the country in a matter of weeks, which was astonishing at the time.

and now the internet takes the place of print. we can see pictures of the other side of the world seconds after they are taken. We no longer hear about news that happened, we watch it happen.

the internet IS the most important invention of our time (also computers because we need them to connect to the internet)

George Foreman's Grill

oil - otherwise humanity wouldn't have a reason to bash each others heads in...:ak47:

that's it... game over people. we have a winner.

the little plastic thing that keeps the pizza box off the pizza

I 2nd that one

Electricity has helped us progress and it still
continue to do so.

Oh don't worry, we are creative motherfuckers

Birth control.

Very well said. :thumbsup

Lot's of good ones here :glugglug

definitely.. hard to pick a winner..

There are so many to pick to say that one is the best. Top ones include; the wheel leading to the engine, computers leading to the internet, electricity. Lots of great ones.

penicillin (antibiotics)

most of us would not even be here now

i agree.

thank you, george foreman.

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printing press

or

steam machine

egyptian aphabet

Time Division Multiplexing

The printing press or the wheel. :thumbsup

silicone chip and logic gates

Plumbing

I think telephone and electricity helped us attaining
our goals.

Human Genome

Good point.

the transistor, printed wiring card

What Ben Franklin & Thomas Alva Edision discovered.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/frbook6.jpg

http://www.people.memphis.edu/~cbburr/gold/tomb.gif

Electricty changed everything more than anything else.

5 DVD's for a buck

Yes. As far as lingual, Sign language, and Solresol.

The Microwave. Shit I'd be lost without it.

Discovery is not the same as inventing. You can use information found in discovery to invent, and you can discover new information from inventions. But the act of discovering and the act of inventing are different. I thought this was about the best 'Inventions':2 cents:

Same here.

Internet ofcourse!

I have that second in my list!

The alphabet is a sytem. Meaningful and intended patterns can be organized to create non-random systems. Cuniforms and hieroglyphics are examples of this. The system was invented.

Red Bull!

Electricity