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85 Big Ideas that Changed the World

Posted by michael on from the mass-spectrometer dept.

ccnull writes "Forbes just put out its well thought-out list of 85 breakthroughs since 1917 (sneakers) that have revolutionized the way we live. This is interesting on a number of levels -- crazy trivia (the microprocessor and the answering machine invented in the same year!?), a reminder of the past (the modem: 1962), and a frightening realization that not much of interest has come out of the last 10 years (a whopping 4 of the 85 ideas). Easily digestible and worth discussing."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    worth a try...got nothing better to do.

  2. Doobies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Doobies

  3. Hmmm... To all citizens of the USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's your belief that "The USA" and "The World" are the same thing that fucks me off the most.

    In sport, there is The World Series - well the rest of the world couldn't give a shit if we're not invited. (BTW, where did you get at the last World Cup?)

    In politics there's the belief that you are "right", to believe otherwise is "Un-American" and therefore the work of evil revolutionaries - which makes it OK to shoot anyone who disagrees with you. Well 'scuse me, I just happen to thing that shooting at people is not something you do to get your own way.

    But the most infuriating is the belief that the first time you do something makes it a "World Changing Moment" (TM) - regardless of how long the rest of the world has been doing something similar.

    Bunch of fucking emus.

    1. Re:Hmmm... To all citizens of the USA by xA40D · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Well 'scuse me, I just happen to thing that shooting at people is not something you do to get your own way.

      Yep, it's something you do back to the people who are shooting at you to get their own way.

      But if you can temp them into shootiong first?

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      Do you mind, your karma has just run over my dogma.