Best invention in the past 100 years?

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solid state electronics

this.

A close runner-up would be commercial flight.

Both have drastically changed how we look at the world at large. Both have contributed to the shrinking of the world to the "global village" that it is today. Both have drastically increased the pace of all other technological invention and innovation that proceeded it. But I give the edge to "electronics" for making the more fundamental and wide-reaching changes.
 

AyashiKaibutsu

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Broodwich:

Forged in darkness from wheat harvested in hell's half acre. Baked by Beelzebub. Slathered with mayonnaise beaten from the evil eggs of dark chicken force-fed to dogs by the hands of a one eyed mad man. Cheese boiled from the rancid teat of fanged cow. Layered with 666 separate meats from an animal which has maggots for blood.