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Mutantius
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 Posted: Wed, 22nd Feb 2006 19:52 Post subject: 10 Things That Will Change The Way We Live |
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There are inventions that people can all benefit from, and then there are inventions that have truly altered the course of history. In the former category, the automatic coffee maker, for example, is a wonderful device: ingenious and capable of brewing some fine java. But had it never existed, it would not have really mattered. The same might be said for the microwave oven, the hair dryer, laser keratotomy, REITs, the Xbox and the ATM machine. All of which are very nice, but we could have gotten along just fine without them.
Then there are those inventions that have had huge, far-reaching impacts on civilization. The plow allowed us to cultivate crops. The printing press advanced literacy and the exchange of ideas. The automobile, the airplane and the telephone, for example, have effectively altered relative concepts of time and space. Refrigeration has dramatically improved health by reducing spoilage of food. Similarly, antibiotics, indoor plumbing, the steam engine, the cotton gin, gunpowder, the electrical grid, the microchip, the sewing machine, the telephone, the computer and the clock have all had powerful and complex impacts that have left the world a vastly different, and often better, place.
So what's coming next?
Source:
http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/16/sony-sun-cisco-cx_cd_0217feat_ls.html
The Internet 2 certainly seems interesting, so does the Laptop $100 Laptop 
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