POLL: OT: The most significant advancement in the past 75 years?
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Three of the choices can be summed up in a word: communications. That was what I was thinking when I read your question and before I saw the choices.
How about optical fiber? I still think it goes back to communications. Past "75 years" is really a wide wide span.
Oh, what the hell. How about breast implants.
Seriously, tremendous advancement in the Medical field.
Seriously, tremendous advancement in the Medical field.
I said nukes. Their existence has basically limited war to small (by historical standards) skirmishes between big countries and little ones, and civil wars in the third world.
The stability that MADD has allowed has probably greatly expanded the ability of all of the rest of the list to thrive.
I voted for Polio and other vaccines - though there was also a separate medical advances category.
I think this generation - or even my generation - has no concept whatsoever about the horrendous impact on lives (and early deaths) of polio and other diseases that could be vaccinated against. More productive lives have led to infinite number of possibilities, and the unleashing of infinite amounts of human potential, on top of completely changing the day to day lives and hopes of hundreds of millions of people.
To the person who mentioned transistors - I believe that was more than 75 years ago.
Computing technology, which was not a choice would also be a good one.
I think this generation - or even my generation - has no concept whatsoever about the horrendous impact on lives (and early deaths) of polio and other diseases that could be vaccinated against. More productive lives have led to infinite number of possibilities, and the unleashing of infinite amounts of human potential, on top of completely changing the day to day lives and hopes of hundreds of millions of people.
To the person who mentioned transistors - I believe that was more than 75 years ago.
Computing technology, which was not a choice would also be a good one.
Without telling Shockley about the changes they were making to the investigation, Bardeen and Brattain worked on. On December 16, 1947, they built the point-contact transistor, made from strips of gold foil on a plastic triangle, pushed down into contact with a slab of germanium.
Transistors do fit in the last 75 years
But medical advances allow us all to be here right now allowing us to answer this poll
Transistors do fit in the last 75 years
But medical advances allow us all to be here right now allowing us to answer this poll
Birth control wasn't one of the choices,but the Pill and abortion may have a larger effect than we currently know,as for the first time in history intelligent people had safe ways to control their family size,reducing the ratio vs the less intelligent.
Transistor invented by Bell Labs in 1947. Without it much of today's world is vastly different.
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I tend to agree with this. The idea that anyone could have a computer on a desk in their home was almost unthinkable when I was in college, and also for the first ten years of my working life. (Of course, a hand held calculator was not yet available either). But once the PC door was opened, the rest became possible.
The USA government takes the best half of the nazi scientist along with Wherner Von Braun, and hence we have what we have today, an advancement in science and Tachnology. Sadly, Nasa has leveled off.
