In your opinion, what has been the greatest invention ever? Why?

The off button

The Klein-bottle, seriously when has uselessness ever been so genius?

Irrigation

There are two types of answers to the this questions so I’ll give you both.

- Agriculture (allowed us to become modern man)
– Antibiotics (allows us to not die from the biggest killer on earth)

Sliced bread.

The taming of fire. Who wants to only eat raw food?

Polarfleece because it’s warm and cozy.

The Dyson vacuum.

Written language a distant second.

THE WHEEL.

Imagine your life without a car. Or a bicycle. Or a shopping cart. Or gasp those rolly luggages.

Sliced bread. Nuff sed.

Man, I really have to read everything before putting in my .02 worth. Didn’t see breedmitch’s input before.

The Gutenberg press

The lightbulb. It totally changed the makeup of civilization and expanded the day’s hours where things can be done and people can be out.

I agree with mirza. This standardized language and brought about an age of enlightenment.

Beer and or Whisky…..
Gosh, then we need to include refrigeration to keep the beer cold. Freezers to make ice for the Scotch…. Then there’s the need to store them in something, and drink them from…

the iphone!

the toothbrush. people are much prettier post toothbrush era.

Social organization, ie. groups living together allowing all the members to survive.

The Number Zero.

I’m going for a more recent invention that I have abdolutely fallen in love with, the Amazon Kindle. I think will completely change the printed book, especially text books.

Would anyone agree on “toilet paper”? Man we couldn’t live without it. How did people do it before it was available, newspapers maybe

@edmartin101: leaves on a stick? or just the stick.

soap

perhaps not the greatest, but certainly amazing is the Dyson Airblade

I had the pleasure of using one in a public restroom a few months ago: unbelievable

WMD’s