The greatest and worse inventions of all time?

The great:
The wheel
The computer
The Internet


Worse:

Plastic

 

It would have been difficult if not impossible to develop modern electronics for computers/internet WITHOUT plastics.


Greatest:

Microscope/Telescope
Precision machine tools
Electrical generation/distribution
Radio/TV transmission
Semiconductors


Worst:

Nuclear weapons

 

greatest:
wheel
computers

worst:
nuclear bomb

 

greatest
computers, bread, agriculture, the wheel, animal farming, sattelites, space rocketry, scientific methodology, philosophy, telephone, writing, books, novels, the theatre, glass, electric light, medicine and pharmaceuticals, chemstry, The English Language, money

worst
RELIGION, capitalism, viscious fighting dogs, concentration camps, weapons of war, dog fights, chicken fights, slavery, fascism, ID cards, boxing, botox, rubics cubes

 

Wait, why rubics cubes?

 

I disagree about the religion thing, even though I'm athiest =P

 

The greatest: mushroom scrubbers


The worst: really high-tech televisions with 10 different remote controls, each with about 100 cryptic buttons that require you to call a technical support person to figure out how to use.

 

Greatest: fire

Worst: money

 

Greatest : moveable type printing press

Worst: Well, the qualities that make an invention "the worst" include qualities that make it hard to identify. A truely bad invention doesn't work and we don't know about it. Like N rays and mesmeric fluid, but those were more discoveries than inventions. Beta Max was a bust as a commercial product, but was adopted professionaly. I'd have to say the V-1. It was unreliable and there was no follow on. (The V-2 was a different program, a completely different design, it was not developed as an improvement to the V-1.)

Edit:re-reading my post, I have to give an honorable mention in the worst category to the 8-track.

 

best: simple things like shelter and toilet paper

worst: not simple things like nukes and windex

 

Best: Computers

Worst: Overly processed food which gives you acid reflex disease.

 

Overly processed food which gives you acid reflex disease.

 

Toilet paper: cut a tree, grind it into tiny pieces, soak those pieces until it forms a sludge, dry the sludge, cut the sludge into strips, match the strips together, roll into a tube, put into a truck, put in a store, take off the shelf, exchange money for rolled up paper.

Toilet paper is not simple, it requires trucks and money to name two of the more complicated requisites.

 

The transistor is more specific I believe, since they are found the the majority of electronics today.

Worst invertions are the ones that were intended to do good.

 

Also Biological weapons, nasty nasty shit, no reason manufacturing that crap

bacteria and viruses will be the end of us all.... if the nukes dont do it that is...

 

Best : Morphine Sulfate Pills

Worst : Morphine Sulfate Pills

 

there is no "worst" scientific discovery nor invention.

The devil is in the application.

 

greatest and worst: MATH. it's necessary. but god damn i wanna shoot the fucker who invented it sometimes. i havn't learned anything important in high school about math in the past 3 years. maybe that's just the district's fault though.

 

bad things

desposable items eg:-

plastic bags

plastic items in general

land fills

fishing trawlers

 

greatest = internet, companion planting for integrated pest management, composting, REALLY narrow gauge railways. solar cells. windmills.

worst = automobile, use of combustion to generate energy, economic and idiological fanatacism.

good = refrigerators, narrow gauge railways (80cm or less, stored energy m.u., other people scale guideway based mechanical transportation, recharged off of , wind/solar/hydro, batteries, streets converted to indoor malls w/ bus/trolly service INSTEAD of mega parking lots. methane from biomass for home cooking and heating, understanding that it all ties togather, use of belief to encourage avoidance of causing suffering, invisible friends.
earth birmed construction.

not good = coal and nuke generating plants, mega dams, wood fraim tickey tacky and strip malls, habitat loss as a resault, denial of the need to self-dicipline priorities, use of belief to encourage denial of connection between priorities and probabilities, the idea that invisible friends are evil unless they are infallable.

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