What's Changed Life As We Know it?
This is a list of the top 25 innovations of the past quarter century.
TOP INNOVATIONS
1. The Internet
2. Cell phone
3. Personal computers
4. Fiber optics
5. E-mail
6. Commercialized GPS
7. Portable computers
8. Memory storage discs
9. Consumer level digital camera
10. Radio frequency ID tags
11. MEMS (microelectromechanical system)
12. DNA fingerprinting
13. Air bags
14. ATM
15. Advanced batteries
16. Hybrid car
17. OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes - photography)
18. Display panels (plasma screen TVs)
19. HDTV
20. Space shuttle
21. Nanotechnology (tiny silicon chip that deploys airbags)
22. Flash memory
23. Voice mail
24. Modern hearing aids
25. Short Range, High Frequency Radio
Oh lawd they forgot HI-SPEED INTERNET!!!!
Truth be know our world as we now know it would be a car pushing 75mph str8 into a ditch without the access to some of these "things" that have become an intergral part of our lives.
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
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