Interview question: What was the greatest invention ever created?

[shuttleboi]

electric lightbulb, but it essentially doubled the amount of time that other inventors could stay up thinking up other inventions.

 

[mugs]

sex

Without it we wouldn't be here today.

 

[Saint Nick]

antiseptics.... like soap or antibiotics

 

[Legendary]

The printing press?

 

[Ronstang]

It is still the wheel. Almost all mechanical things have wheels of some types in their designs. It is not necessarily the wheel itself but the concept of round items that "roll". Gears are modified wheels. So many things are derived from the wheel. Find any item that is mechanical in nature and then see if it uses a wheel or the concept in it's design. Most things will. Certain items like transistors may be incredible pieces of technology but could they have been designed or manufactured without a wheel in some way.....if they could be could they be delivered to the end user without a wheel being used? Wheels are EVERYWHERE and in EVERYTHING. This is merely my opinion of course so I could be wrong.

 

[nageov3t]

does the written language count as an invention?

personally, I'd go with the printing press, though it'd undoubtably be the internet if you were looking only at modern era inventions.

 

[her209]

The number "zero".

 

[Janet Reno]

spiders

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: Janet Reno
spiders

wwybywb

 

[robothouse77]

the transistor. hands down

 

[dullard]

I'd say spoken language.

But if it had to me something more tangible: sanitation. Without sanitation, none of the responses from those above me would matter. You aren't getting the internet or microchips without clean rooms. You aren't going to get good medical care without sanitation. And mugs, without sanitation, would you really want that sex?

 

[Liviathan]

The fax machine. It really changed the way business is done. The fact that documents could be sent to locations all around the globe in a matter of minutes were the first step of the information revolution.

 

[Liviathan]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
<Obligatory> Fleshlight </Obligatory>

2nd that.

 

[markgm]

Sliced bread.

 

[LeadMagnet]

Gravity

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: robothouse77
the transistor. hands down

All the transistor did was give a more efficient way to do what was already being done with tubes.

 

[Patt]

pasteurization process

 

[NaOH]

god

 

[FusionKnight]

Originally posted by: Martin
agriculture

I absolutely agree. Humans existed for more than 100,000 years in a hunter/gatherer society, and everything you see today in relation to technology would not have happened without agriculture. Agriculture allowed humans to congregate in one place and develop the social and economic foundations of what we have today. No question - agriculture ftw.

FK

 

[StinkyPinky]

Sharks with lasers

 

[codeyf]

Legos

 

[otispunkmeyer]

probably the computer......

lets face it without computers alot of things would jus go to pot. i bet alot of people are never more than a few micro meters away from a computer at any one time.

or the IC engine.....

its gave us so much

 

[djheater]

That's the first thing that popped to mind for me as well.

I would say:

Agriculture

• Beer

 

[codeyf]

Rolling Papers

 

[DnetMHZ]

Beer