Posted on 09/04/2022 9:39:15 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
While the Internet and the World Wide Web have certainly impacted the lives of many millions of people it is certainly not the greatest invention of the past millennium, in fact it might not even make the the top ten.
No toasters.
No Internet of Things toasters to spy on owners.
How would the government be able to keep us all in line?
AC
Earlier agricultural machinery also had a big influence on history. Turning over land that had been used to grow feed for horses to food production was a big deal, but we might not have made it to that point if agricultural production hadn't been increasing before that.
Or would he be considered a trogger for tract log?
Dehydrated Water?
The Thermos. It keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold.
How do it know?
Firearms
Yoga pants for ladies of the appropriate figure.
Worst inventions: I’ll start...
Government.
Underarm deodorant.
The plow.
The field effect transistor is the fundamental invention that made modern microprocessors and ask the technology around us possible. Microprocessors were a natural evolution of the capability to highly integrate FETs.
I’d think air conditioning would be in the top 10
A scholarly article several years ago, which may have prompted your remark, noted that washers provide the key threshold for third world women finally to have leisure time.
And no mention of the vegamatic or the Shamwow either?
Definitely, obunghole’s phony birth certificate needs to be added to the list...
That’s great. And of course correct. Nothing beats the clapper.
RESPONSES:
“1 Printing Press 1450 Johannes Gutenberg allowed literacy to greatly expand”
Information now CENSORED, thanks to the Globalists and the Democrats.
“2 Electric Light 1879 Thomas Edison powered countless social changes”
No longer affordable or reliable to operate, due to the cost and non-reliability of Green Energy.
“3 Automobile 1885 Karl Benz increased personal mobility and freedom”
No longer practical for long distance travel, due to charging times and lack of a reliable power grid.
“4 Telephone 1876 Alexander Graham Bell spread communication across wide areas”
Now being used to spy on people and throw them in jail if they supported Trump on Jan. 6
“5 Radio and Television 1895 & 1926 Guglielmo Marconi & John Baird made the world smaller”
Greatly centralized the ability to control information to the public, and thus promulgate complete lies and fabrications.
“6 Vaccination 1796 Edward Jenner protected people from disease”
Now used to destroy freedoms, in lieu of diseases.
“7 Computer 1939 John Atanasoff, et al. transformed business world; predecessor to the Internet”
Allowed US ‘teachers’ to stop teaching math to young kids, which has directly led to China being king of the hill very shortly.
“8 Airplane 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright allowed people and products to quickly move”
Soon to be extinct, due to Greta.
“9 Gas powered tractor 1892 John Froelich started agricultural mechanization”
Also soon to be extinct, due to Greta.
“10 Anesthesia 1844 Horace Wells provided a great leap forward for medicine”
Used to allow the mutilation of little boys and little girls by deranged parents and deranged ‘educators’.
I actually think the flush toilet should be number one on the list.
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