[Mycroft Holmes]

Think about it. What was the last transformational technology post-WWII that has occurred after:

1. The invention of the transistor,

2. Invention of the technologies for geosynchronous satellite communication,

3. Invention of the cellular telephone system,

4. Invention of the PC,

5. Invention of the Internet,

6. Invention of the solid-state laser,

7. Invention of fiber optics,

8. Invention of the integrated circuit,

9. Invention of the microprocessor?

Nothing like those transformative technologies have been invented during the last 20 years. Why is that?

PCR - Polymerase Chain Reaction which is the basis for all of modern molecular biology, invented by some surfer dude out of Santa Cruz named Kary Mullis in '83, not inside your 20 year window, but think of all that flowed from the fruit of that tree since.

Oh, and Bob Taylor was an ass, world class.

I, for one, welcome our new Cybernetic Overlords /.

[catnipman]

“PCR - Polymerase Chain Reaction which is the basis for all of modern molecular biology, invented by some surfer dude out of Santa Cruz named Kary Mullis in ‘83, not inside your 20 year window, but think of all that flowed from the fruit of that tree since. “

PCR is transformational and I should have added that to my list (being as how it’s from the ‘80s), but I’m not as well-versed in the bio-sciences as some of the others. And as far as that goes, discovery of DNA by Watson and Crick should have been on the list as well.