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Based on the choices you have given I think that the Computer has the biggest impact on mankind. Computers became a catalyst of lots of development from the internet, to social networking, business marketing, business process outsourcing, online media, online interaction.
One of the biggest impact it has done worldwide is through globalization The world today is smaller compared before when computers and internet were not yet invented. It is easy now to communicate with other people around the world using chat, email and other social networking site.
We can now access other libraries in different countries with the use of computer. So I think Computer and all those that comes with it like the internet created a big impact in our world today.
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No other invention changed our landscape as much as the car - highways and roads taking up space, changing water runoff, creating industry based solely on roads. Signs are made for them, traffic lights and fines for speeding :)
Cars made it possible for hotels and motels to spring up all over the country - where the new roads went, people migrated! New towns, new holidays, new national parks for people to travel to. Road service industries were born, mechanics, race car drivers, petrol stations. The oil industry owes so much growth to cars.
Houses are designed with cars in mind, whole sections of the building are called 'garage' its created hobbies and home entrepreneurs, eBay sales and spare parts, scrap metal industries.
Licenses to drive cars, motor registries, driving instructors, police to catch speeders, drug offenses and tests.
Racing cars and fast cars and scientific development, tires and oil companies, carpet makers and interior designers....
Pollution and waste, chemicals in our air, no climate is the same since cars were invented.
So I say the car ( just beats the computer )
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Which of these inventions do you think had the biggest impact on mankind:
The lightbulb
Telephone
Computer
Car
Airplane
and why?
Telephone
Computer
Car
Airplane
and why?
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| November 13, 2009 01:47 AM |
One of the biggest impact it has done worldwide is through globalization The world today is smaller compared before when computers and internet were not yet invented. It is easy now to communicate with other people around the world using chat, email and other social networking site.
We can now access other libraries in different countries with the use of computer. So I think Computer and all those that comes with it like the internet created a big impact in our world today.
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November 13, 2009 01:54 AM
Based on your list I say the car. No other invention changed our landscape as much as the car - highways and roads taking up space, changing water runoff, creating industry based solely on roads. Signs are made for them, traffic lights and fines for speeding :)
Cars made it possible for hotels and motels to spring up all over the country - where the new roads went, people migrated! New towns, new holidays, new national parks for people to travel to. Road service industries were born, mechanics, race car drivers, petrol stations. The oil industry owes so much growth to cars.
Houses are designed with cars in mind, whole sections of the building are called 'garage' its created hobbies and home entrepreneurs, eBay sales and spare parts, scrap metal industries.
Licenses to drive cars, motor registries, driving instructors, police to catch speeders, drug offenses and tests.
Racing cars and fast cars and scientific development, tires and oil companies, carpet makers and interior designers....
Pollution and waste, chemicals in our air, no climate is the same since cars were invented.
So I say the car ( just beats the computer )
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November 13, 2009 06:31 AM
From the list given the biggest impact on mankind ,I feel is the invention of telephone.Right from day one to this day it serves as the first communication media to maintain relationships over long distances. It is accesseble at any time by anybody (be it poor ,rich or middle class).Helps share moments of joy ,sorrow or a call of emergency immediately to friends ,collegues and dearones.With all the technologies and other inventions around still telephone is the one that comes first in the minds of people first at a need of communication.To my knowledge I think that it was the first to develope a major economical impact by developing a new market for employing women as telephone operators.
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Yes, then we must consider that in order to get the Computer, we did the Atomic Bomb which was the artifact that brought the Computer in the first place... but in order to get the A-bomb we invented WWII (which the west won) to achieve this we needed key inventions like the Radar or the Penicillin which were created just a few years previous to the war.
So, the thing goes on and on going backwards to find the source of key inventions, but we can also do the exercise going forward and can find that with Computers came another key invention: the Internet. Marvelous technology that shaped the creation of a site like Mahalo.