In your opinion, which technological invention was the most important in history? No wheel fags please
Gun power
Steam power
Copper/Iron/Bronze/Steel melting
viagra
so op can get his micropenis erect
The various agriculture inventions that allowed us to produce much more food with far fewer man hours.
>>51987433
This.
printing press, metallurgy
i vote for electricity. look what has done for communication and medical care alone
The interconnection of electronic devices
Fire
Writing
Printing press
Computer
>>51987345
wel OBVIOUSLY whatever Apple makes. They just pioneer on anything. Do you guys even think different?
>>51987492
the fuck you retard
people played with electricity for 100 years before anyone got any use for it
try maybe electric motor / electric generator
>>51987345
Breathing.
The automatisations of Kellog's® Cornflakes
>>51987345
God
>>51987534
agreed
Clothing
Electricity
Meme.
>>51987603
IT'S A MEME YOU DIP
>>51988022
I BET YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE PROCESSOR OF THE IPAD
>>51987345
Language.
Without it, we couldn't shillpost or shitpost.
INTERNET
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>>51988047
DO YOU REALLY THINK I WAS GOING TO BEAT YOU UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH A IPAD
THE MOST AMAZING PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY THERE IS
Oil drill/pumping rigs
EM generators
EM transceivers
Cooling/Heating systems
Internal combustion engines
Water purification and distribution
Antibiotics
Those are the first things that come to mind.
>>51987345
Virtual Reality was to be mankind's greatest and also it's very last invention
>>51988102
androids faster, mayBEE youve never used it while your on reddit a gay site for fags
fire
>>51988196
Fire was given to humanity by the lord
We didn't invent it
The Apple™ iPhone® of course
>>51988229
Prometheus you mean.
Agriculture. Sanitation. Steam power.
Fedora
>>51988279
No I meant it was most likely lightning hitting a tree
You can't invent elements
>>51988436
Sure you can, man invented several elements on the periodic table.
>>51987345
Written language/alphabet and paper. This counts as tech. You can spend beakers on it.
>>51988477
>implying those didn't already exist when the big bang happened 5000 years ago
>>51988530
Big bang (if it really happened), should have produced zero elements (or atoms) initially. If it really happened, then it would have had to cool off to form only simple elements like Hydrogen. More complex elements are from super-novae (and man-made nuclear reactors).
>>51987345
The container. It brings order to what would otherwise be chaos.
Math
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Beer provided an alternative to potentially dangerous water.
Whiskey provided a good way to store and transport calories
Vibrating dragon dildos
>>51988994
Alchy detected....
>weed is the greatest invention...
>ummm yeah
>>51988688
Yeah I was going to say zero
In this order, very generally, most influentia:
1. Tools
2. Clothing
3. Language
4. Cooking
5. Agriculture
6. pastoralis/domestocation
7. Writing
8. Pottery, vessels in general
9. Artificial shelters
10. Water management tech (aquaducts, canals, and the like)
11. Wheel
12. Formal mathematics
12.1 arithmetic
12.2 decimal place value system
12.3 algebra
12.4 geometry
12.5 calculus, diff. equations
12.6 statistics, vector algebra
13. philosophy
13.1 religion
13.2 formal logic / reason
13.3 scientific method
14. art
15. medicine
Dank memes.
>>51987345
4chan
>>51989483
I'd put Language as number 2 instead of clothing, and medicine is far too low on that list, it should be around the level of agriculture.
written language you cucks
>>51989483
>he thinks tools are an invention
>>51991427
>written language
actually spoken language is more influential
pictorial language (paintings, symbols and such) comes number two
Basic social stuff:
1. spoken language (basic social + recording history)
2. pictorial language (recording history)
3. tribes (instead of large family groups. Basic for keeping peace)
4. monuments (creating social classes and division of labor)
5. non-organized religion and creation myths (creating even larger cultural affinities and worship centers)
Basic survival stuff:
1. Time measuring
2. fire
3. rope making
4. Container making/pottery
5. weaving
>>51987345
Money of course. Money is the very means of trade and specialization, and the greatest vessel for human advancement.
Cigarette for getting rid of retards and skanks
>>51987345
The toilet. Which every country in the world has mastered, except for one.
>>51988688
>math
>invention
>>51987492
I also vote for electricity. While there are many technological inventions/discoveries that have had a major impact on our modern daily lives (cement/smelting/locomotion/flight/internet/etc), electricity is the biggest.
>>51989059
>weed is the greatest invention
But it is.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Jack_Herer_-_The_Emperor_Wears_No_Clothes.pdf&page=6
>>51987345
The Matrix.
>>51987345
any instrument to write/read characters/symbols
>>51987492
I see you enjoyed my photo.
>>51987345
A
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>most important
Most definitely the transistor
>most impressive
Probably the discovery or understanding of fuels
>>51993427
nigga we give you the pill for a reason, you pretend you know shit about it, ok?
The screw.
Clock. First mechanism.
>>51989555
1. Memes
2. Science
3. Memes
>>51987433
This.
>>51987345
Not really an invention but probably Calculus.
The first real math that you can't think on your own.
You can't count the derivative of something or assign it a variable(well I guess technically you could)
toilet paper is nice
>>51994279
soap
plumbing
In modern history it is pic related.
Alienware
>>51988994
The former is a historical myth. Water in the middle ages was good to drink even in cities. There is no historical proofs.
Can't argue with the latter point.
>>51989483
>Language
Bitch I hope you mean artificial languages like logic and programming languages because language is a human faculty not an invention. Language is neurologically hardwired.
Agriculture.
>>51987345
Not sure if it truly fits, but the utilisation of radio.
It has brought us everything from TV, to RADAR, to advances in astronomy, wifi in your devices, and much more.
Radio was the greatest discovery of man, and our inventions that utilise it truly revolutionised the world
>>51987487
Hello civ v
>>51991628
implying they aren't you can't shitpost without a keyboard
>>51988163
>>51987345
Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
>>51987345
putting a rock on a stick to make a spear probably. it opened up the way to new weapons like a micro spear shooter (bow and arrow for the normies).
>>51987603
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>>51988047
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>>51988163
you feggots turned him into a meme
you realize that must've been his wettest dream right?
>>51987433
this is false though, hunting has always provided more food to eat.
it's just that agriculture, with culture, religion and civilization on the side scales better than the previous system.
and now we're at the point where agriculture's limits are getting on us, and we need to figure out new ways to feed ourselves or the climate will get us all killed.
In no particular order.
Internet
Steam engine/fossil fuel usage
Industrial farming and/or fertiliser
Phonetic writing systems
Roman law (too many intricacies to name any particular points)
Sanitation/sewer systems/epidemiology in general
BTW pictographic/hieroglyphic writing systems are retarded as fuck (this symbol means love! see it almost looks like open arms!).
>>51997709
Plus Roman government, one of the first cohesive governments that actually allowed so large an empire to exist for so long
>>51987345
pic related
>>51987345
either the nuke or the transistor
>>51987428
I bet you thought you were really clever when you wrote this.
>>51997863
This, the transistor changed the world way more anyone could think of
>>51997863
>the nuke
a lot of people seem to forget how important the nuke was for peace in the west. i don't think it was the most important invention, though. i vote for navigation and ships
gutenberg press
>>51987345
memes
without them I would have no reason to shitpost on any board. my life would be meaingless.
>>51987345
mt dew
for modern times it's engine
nothing beats that
electric motors/generators, no contest
>>51988067
I agree. Its allowed us masses to band together and tell each other whats going on in every part of the world. Its an amazing tool for us.
>>51998748
The risk of global human extermination wasn't worth it if you ask me.
It's nice in hindsight these days. But fuck me it was the pretty close.
>>51987345
when people remembered about the crystal pulse technology with quartz.
>>51987535
>100 years
>not 1000+
your new is showing.
>>51987977
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>>51995655
the fuck is going on ITT????
The sharpened stick
>>52000358
This could be the worst attempt at comeback I've ever seen
Back to /b/ scum
