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04-17-2012, 06:22 AM | #1 |
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The ten best inventions of the last 100 years?
Saw this elsewhere, thought it'd be a fun idea. What would you name as best invention of the last century and why?
Some I would definitely put on my list: 1. Vacuumcleaner - speeds up cleaning amazingly 2. hormonal birthcontrol - finally some grip on your own reproductive cycle 3. Laser - you'd be surprised how much laser technology is involved in making anything 4. The Internet - the world at your fingertips 5. Zippers - (at least I think they're not older than a century) more trustworthy for clothes and bags than most buttons 6. dishwasher - I admit, a luxury because I always hated doing the dishes (my sister always landed me with the dirtiest dishes) 7. microchips - the basis of much of our technology 8. genome sequencing - interesting to look into the building blocks of life 9. Hubble - I'm biased, I admit, but Hubble was and is an instrumental tool to understand our universe What are yours?
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