What's the #1 innovation on the CNN list?

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CNN will announce the number one innovation on their Top 25 innovations list on Sunday, January 16, at 8 p.m. ET. The list covers the last 25 years (1980-2005)

1. T.B.A.
2. Cell phone
3. Personal computers
4. Fiber optics
5. E-mail
6. Commercialized GPS
7. Portable computers
8. Memory storage discs
9. Consumer level digital camera
10. Radio frequency ID tags
11. MEMS
12. DNA fingerprinting
13. Air bags
14. ATM
15. Advanced batteries
16. Hybrid car
17. OLEDs
18. Display panels
19. HDTV
20. Space shuttle
21. Nanotechnology
22. Flash memory
23. Voice mail
24. Modern hearing aids
25. Short Range, High Frequency Radio


What do you think the #1 innovation is?
 
that's hard - mainly because i might die without most of the things on that list (with the exception of heated underwear)
 
I'm going to have to say that the number one invention is the Internet. Without the Internet, imagine how many things we would not be able to do... It is the one invention that can connect the world.
 
I'm pretty sure that the Internet is out of the question on this one, but you never know if they'll bring it back. The Internet was created well before the 80's although it was not widely accessible.
 
Most of inventions that we think are high-tech inventions today, were actually invented in the early to mid 1900s. They were, of course, not as advanced as they are today, but the basic concept was created. Cell phones have come a long way over the years. They use to be like bricks and now they can fit in the palm of your hand and your pocket.
 
EnDream Host said:
Ummm... I have an odd feeling it will be the internet. Probably because that's the most important innovation ever.
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Wow! the most important innovation ever - bigger than asy
Fire
The Wheel
Television
etc ;)

Id say microwave ovens - people who dont have cellphones (which predate the 80's) or personal computers still nuke their leftovers ...
 
I had no doubts that it would be the internet.

I'm pretty sure that the Internet is out of the question on this one, but you never know if they'll bring it back. The Internet was created well before the 80's although it was not widely accessible
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The internet was developed in 1973 by Vinton Cerf for the military (ARPA = Advanced Research Projects Agency). It wasn't available to the public at all, in any publicly useful method until 1989, when Timothy Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web for the European Organization for Nuclear Research or (CERN).

I guess the one doubt that I could possibly have that it would have been the Internet, in the number one slot, would be that the internet cannot function without the use of telephone lines, optical fibers, or computers.
 
I guess the one doubt that I could possibly have that it would have been the Internet, in the number one slot, would be that the internet cannot function without the use of telephone lines, optical fibers, or computers.
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The Internet is computers, telephone lines and optical fibers hooked up to one another, so that everyone "on" it can communicate.
 
All of which are seperate components of the Internet. All of which serve their own function seperately, but without each of them, the Internet would not exist.
 
ANMMark said:
All of which are seperate components of the Internet. All of which serve their own function seperately, but without each of them, the Internet would not exist.
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Fiber optics did score pretty high on the list. You are correct that without any of the one components, the Internet would not and could not exist. The Internet is key to many of the things we do today.
 
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