What is humanity's greatest technological achievement?

[beer]

The Apollo system or the space shuttle?
SR-71 or the X34A scramjet (going to be tested this week)?
The Earth Simulator supercomputer in use in Japan?

What do you think it is and why?

 

[zimu]

internet. god knows where i'd be without it.

 

[djNickb]

The interweb because it lets everyone waste time on a global scale

 

[zimu]

Originally posted by: djNickb
The interweb because it lets everyone waste time on a global scale

heh heh beat ya to it

 

[azazyel]

The Wheel. nuff said

 

[jjones]

Your nick says it all.

 

[GasX]

The wheel

 

[ElFenix]

X-43A, not 34

 

[Howard]

Beer!

 

[Analog]

Text

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
The wheel

Pfft.... it's not like they wouldn't have figured it out eventually.

 

[loup garou]

Toilet paper.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Fire.

ZV

 

[Chiropteran]

AOL

 

[RossMAN]

Pizza

 

[TommyVercetti]

Supply Chain.

 

[zimu]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
AOL

i agree.
especially the new streamlined 9.0 turbo. WOW, its amazing!

 

[ClueLis]

Writing.

 

[Homerboy]

Opposable Thumb and/or ability to use tools

 

[phatj]

TIVO

 

[gopunk]

development of mathematics

 

[Syringer]

anandtech

 

[beer]

Some of you are giving me the most significant, but not the greatest. The wheel, writing, tools, etc, may be the most significant (as in, ushering a new era) but they aren't our 'greatest' achievements.

 

[upsciLLion]

Airbrushing.

 

[bonkers325]

toothbrush