What's the best invention of all times?

True, mobility has also helped us find out what other places look like, how people live there, what is their culture and history, etc. In the past people had no or little idea about the rest of the world, they only knew their country and in many cases not even that. This was a huge wall starting to come down in the times they found out how to cross seas and oceans and coming down almost completely in our times. Of course, there's still some progress to be made still. But I totally agree with the fact that it's only gonna get crazier!

The things we learned when we learned to travel. Amazing! Now the world is so connected it is amazing. I hope to see a major international awakening of the people to coordinate and make this world an amazing place to live again. Hopefully I see that in my time here! :)

I love it when I stumble across people who think like me! Or should I say "feel' like me!? I'm hoping for the same awakening and I'm sure it's gonna happen in my lifetime. Actually, it's happening already!

:))))))))))) I'd say religion itself is the best invention, but if you want to resume to The New Testament, be my guest. Give the football game 2000 years and we'll ask this question again, let's see which one is still around! :))) No, just jokin' about that. But seriously now, I see your point... the greatest stories ever told (bible, coran, torah), taken together, are actually the greatest invention of all, and that's because it's the only one who got to every living human soul on earth. But now the question arises: how much longer will they last? Cause we all know what begins must also come to an end.

I guess you didn't try hard enough to be accurate, VVroom, my friend! Did I make a comment too long and you never got to the end? Or you don't know what to answer? Be accurate, if you'd like: How much longer do you think people will still believe in this story?

Well, I was also thinking about mentioning The Holy Bible or the religion but both things seemed a little bit near the other meaning of 'invention', I was trying to point out before. Very close, but not 100% there :) Not everything is 'invented' in the Old Testament and also in religions. Sometimes the truth is hidden in the back of symbols and metaphors. Sometimes is black on white. They had/ have the ability of telling the truth ( where it was the truth) but in such a manner that nobody cared/ cares about. Or really understand. The 'belief', is not in the true parts but in the story, in the invention. And the 'story' is mainly in the New Testament. Also religion as an institution operates with an eternal truth, just that the story is more attractive then the simplicity of the fact. So, I guess you will excuse me, Lightwarrior, for being too compulsive and having a word obsession on your topic. I was just trying to be accurate :))

oh man i didn't see that you too are supporting for the wheel UltimateAsoka...

I totally agree with the wheel. It escaped me in the original thread, I didn't even think about it :) The wheel proposition came as a nice surprise, especially as I started thinking about all sort of little machines who couldn't have been possible without it. So, the wheel is now in my top 5 inventions of all times :)) Have a great day observing the world, voldrox!

I think television is a good example of misusing an invention. I can't find anything interesting on TV lately. I don't really listen to radio either, they're all playing the same songs. This doesn't mean they're useless, but I've done my share of using them and I'm kind of tired of them. I do agree with penicillin and in fact all inventions in the medicine field are quite important, but I still feel there are so many new things to find out about healing people that we seem to be millions of light years away of the perfect way to do it.

Personal opinion is exactly what I was hoping for and counting on, champrocker! And by the way, many people here agree with you on this one. Seems like after 19 replies the "war" for the first position is going on between Internet and Electricity. I'm getting more and more curious to see who's gonna win!

I love computers too. I hate the fact that they don't always work, though. And I dream about the day that pill as a full meal will be on the market. Just for emergency cases, of course, like in a plane or in a country where you don't get along with the traditional cuisine, or after a long day at work, when you're too tired too cook.

Thanks, I'm just discovering this new mylot world and I found so many interesting topics and people around here that I already find it wonderful :)) Progress will never cease to happen, I think we can only chose a direction, maybe sometimes not even that. Or at least, just as you say it, when there's a new thing in town, use it properly.

...and understanding comes from LOVE. People forget to love, getting caught in this speed that they have to keep up to. The bad side and the good side of the internet: getting people to rush to keep up to progress and then connecting them to make them feel they're part of the whole again.

Communication should be an invention itself. Hahahaha! I mean, at some point people needed to talk and they invented language... or maybe signs at first. We've come a long way, that's for sure! We always want more and I'm still expecting for the best way to communicate with others. Telephone was a huge step in communication and smoothed the way for the internet, or should I say made the invention of the internet called for. Who doesn't speak at least one time a day on their mobile or landline phone?

Mobility, mobility, mobility! The magic words! The first step was the wheel, as some point out here and I agree. And as we know, human beings need the base and then the world is theirs (ours). Once they had the wheels, sky was the limit. Now, there's no limit, or the limit is the galaxy! Good progress, right?

Hehe! That's a good one! Weren't the chinese who invented paper? There's an invention! Again, in my top 5 even if I didn't think of it at first... and the toilet paper, we should thank chinese for that, also. Where would be mankind without it? We would all be a lot dirtier, that's for sure! :))

Getting lost is a thing of the past, right? Thank God for that! No, sorry, thank the guy who invented GPS for that! :)) I went to LA a few years ago and I have to admit that without my GPS I would still look for the way to anywhere in LA. Huge city, and it's not the only one. Too bad there are many places where GPS doesn't really work... There are still improvements to be made, like in any other domain that we talk about!

I think ALL inventions are useful in a way or another. It's just us who use them in a wrong way sometimes. But even this is useful, as we make mistakes and then we know what to fix or not do them anymore. Any step back can actually be a step forward, right? And yeah, let's imagine the world without electricity: an endless earth hour! :))

Soooo true!! And we do take it for granted! Has anyone ever been to one of those 3rd world hole-in-the-ground-toilets? It's unbearable! They're impossible to use and still many people still use them, since they don't have sewerage in so many areas around the world. This is for sure a great invention!!

Hahaha! Never thought of that! But it's an interesting idea, I'll give you that! I don't use it that much, but I have it in my home and I guess there are a lot of people who use it on a daily basis.