What do you think was the greatest invention/achievement of the last century?  

So..I guess the inventions of paper, pen, and ink, would be a start to what you are saying? Without these then, documentation may not have ever existed, or at least, would have taken a lot longer time to come into affect.

Good one.

cdrxo

Please disregard the avatar and user name.
This IS my response to you boybato.

I'm using another's PC, as mine is out of commission at present, and I had forgotten to log them out of myLot before I began.

Sorry about that.
Please accept my apologies.

Cheers;
cdrxo

That's indeed a lot more simpler. Thanks. Basically, documentation is by far the greatest invention for me. Without it, pretty sure inventions in the past won't get better in the future.

I like the fast food chain idea.
Hehehehe.
What would become of our smiles without our good 'ol Mc-Happy Meal?

Hubble? Yes!
...add to that, putting a man on the moon.

All the others...I agree have certainly improved opur lives.

Good listings!

Cheers;
cdrxo

Yeah...and bless too the one who invented more channels to watch.

I can remember how much I hated listening to that dreaded whooooooo-sound and seeing that stupid black & white test pattern come on, when all of the stations(about 6 of them) would sign off the air at midnight...back in the day.

When cable arrived at our house, we were so amazed at how many stations we could receive. No longer did we need our towering TV antenna strapped to the house.

Then came the advent of color television.
WOW!
What a world opened up for us all.
Staying up late was the coolest thing.
Oh those Blue movies.
mmm-hmmmm!!!

cdrxo

Well I'll disagree with you on the number of channels. Yes there are tons of them right now, but nothing worth wasting your time on watching. THe shows these days are trash. What happened to the fun family comedy sitcoms? I was watching a show selling box sets of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast where all the big celebrities would come etogether and "roast" a certain celebrity and celebrate that persons life and accomplishments! IT was only a commercial and I laughed the entire time at those hilariously funny comments and such. What happened to TGIF? ANd the Saturday Night Movie and SUnday Night Movie? And looking for ward to Monday Night Football? And we used to get 26 episodes a season..now it is 13-16 per season and re runs constantly! And color is nice!
But what I hate most... you now have to pay for tv ...even local channels. "back then"...we didn't have to pay for it. THat sucks big time!

Aaaaaaah!
Thank you for that one bro.
True agents such as we, MUST always stick together.


cdrxo

Funny...I was just talking to a friend of mine about that the other night.

I too was amazed at the technology of Star Trek, and DID believe it would come true some day. Little was I aware that it would be in my lifetime.

Think of the iPads. Soon, I believe, they will just be sheets of clear plastic but have the same functions as well as the ability to humanly interact with it. This idea will carry forward to home computers and television.

Holograms and/or projections of the sort, I truly believe are not that far away.
In fact...they're probably just around the corner.


cdrxo

For sure!

I can remember when I was little...that my grandmother used to use one of those wooden scrub-boards with the ribbed glass on them, and huge metal bucket for washing clothes. Then she'd just hang the clothes on a line outside to dry.
Talk about work!

...and vacuum cleaners? Yeah!
Sure beats the old corn broom, doesn't it?


cdrxo

Here's another one
1.Blow Dryer for you hair,
2.Elertic Irons for clothes.

cd

Oh yeah!
I'd be lost without a hair dryer.
Of course, I suppose the clothes dry could do that, and I could even "go for a spin" at the same time.

The electric clothes iron...another good one.
...also a great tool for flattening out curls and/or kinks in your hair.


cdrxo

Oops, sorry for the typo in my first comment.
...that's; "clothes DRYER", could do that.....

That's if got any hair !!!Plus going for a spin I think we all could "haha" I agree with you.

cd

Aah yes...the internet. The new world information highway, as it were.
Quite the invention, indeed.

However, being a professor of physics, I would've guessed you'd say...harnessing the splitting of the uranium atom, might have been more your..."cup of tea"...strictly for the BETTER use of mankind, rather than for it's destructive power.

But...internet, is definitely cool with me too.

Good one Professor.

Cheers;
cdrxo

ABSOLUTELY!
Very well put.

We DO take a lot of it for granted, don't we?
As long as it's to our advantage to BETTER humankind...to invest in our GROWTH, and NOT become victims or restricted by the limits of our imagination...then I say; "Dream on people! We have merely scratched the surface."

Let's face it...we ARE an intelligent race.

I mean, when you were a child, would you have ever guessed that the sand in your sandbox would some day become responsible for the development of THIS type of worldly communication?

I know I never did.

Cheers;
cdrxo