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Greatest invention of 20th century?

What do you think was the greatest invention of the 20th century? Cars? Computers? Medicine? Or what? My personal choice would be the mute button on a TV remote! Come on all, let's hear your thoughts!

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Old 06-30-2014, 06:59 PM
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This is not sarcastic, but I think it's great to be able to put your garbage in a box at the end of your driveway and have someone else haul it off. Similarly, to take a poo and flush it to wherever with no fuss, no muss and go about your merry way.

So to me, our modern utilities (water, sewer, power, trash) and right after that, our transportation network. We live in remarkable times.
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No competition. Air conditioning. Nothing else comes close. I never went to a single school that was air conditioned. We loved in Texas, Alabama and Oklahoma and suffered through 100 degree days. BTDT ain't going back.

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This is not sarcastic, but I think it's great to be able to put your garbage in a box at the end of your driveway and have someone else haul it off. Similarly, to take a poo and flush it to wherever with no fuss, no muss and go about your merry way.

So to me, our modern utilities (water, sewer, power, trash) and right after that, our transportation network. We live in remarkable times.
For that matter, you give somebody about half a dollar, and they'll take a letter across the country and deliver it to a specific address in a matter of a few days...
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Smart phone - hands down.

You have access to the world's knowledge at the tip of your fingers -

of course its backed up by an enormous network of computers - but still - the local access to data cannot be discounted!

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I'm with Glen.....Air conditioning!!!

Just changed the cabin filters in my Silverado.....holy cow......BLOWING HARD ice cold air again!
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I would say the transistor but actually photoresist chemistry used to make integrated circuits...
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Vacuum tubes... paved the way for transistors... and then silicon...
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Vacuum tubes sure did pave the way but the expansion of the IC was exponential compared to anything else - seems to have influenced all industries...
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Air conditioning has been around since 1881. President James A. Garfield was shot and it was a very hot summer in Washington. "In an effort to relieve the sick man from the heat of a Washington summer, Navy engineers rigged up an early version of the modern air conditioner. Fans blew air over a large box of ice and into the President's sickroom; the device worked well enough to lower the temperature twenty degrees"

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