Discussion of the Day
Best or Worst Inventions
31-Jan-23
From the wheel to sliced bread, there are virtually millions of inventions that have benefitted humankind. What invention do you think has helped humanity the most and which has turned out to be the worst. Is there anything you would like to see invented in the future to help humanity?
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  • The vibrator
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    • Walter does this all the time and he's always posting hate towards whites. Yet he still comunicates with whites on rewardia.
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        • The shoe phone the best invention. Thankyou Maxwell Smart.
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          • In the 1990s, Sports Illustrated developed and promoted a "Sneaker Phone", a sports shoe that included a (corded) phone. The company began a television campaign to promote a special deal whereby consumers who subscribed to their magazine received a free Sneaker Phone.
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          • Brilliant! Cone of silence high up on the list too ..
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          • Only when worn with odourless socks, otherwise poor Max would be too busy gagging to talk.. so odourless socks have to be right up next to shoe phones..
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          • mary cTom S Qld
            where did the cord attach to haha...
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          • mary cTom S Qld
            hmmm interesting..tho' my shoe wouldn't have been a great phone the other day after stepping in the damn cats doodoo..grrrrr.
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          • mary cLiane H
            Long live the cone i say ;))
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          • mary cPato Lo Duck
            his lovely smart 2IC special agent probably looked after his socks haha- what was her name again?
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          • Liane H mary c
            Agent 99 did u call?!
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          • mary cLiane H
            i loved her!! i think i had a wee leather skirt like hers- except i was 4 years old haha. Dammit its nearly 12.30 am here in boganville!!! hope all good over in your resort?
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          • Tom S QldLiane H
            "Cone of Silence" originated on the syndicated TV show Science Fiction Theatre, in an episode titled "Barrier of Silence" and first aired September 3, 1955.
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          • Tom S QldTom S Qld
            I've added 'cone of silence' to the Favorite Sayings forum.
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          • Tom S QldTom S Qld
            Maxwell Smart's "cone of silence" is finally a reality. Two people in an office here were having a tête-à-tête, but it was impossible for a listener standing nearby to understand what they were saying. The conversation sounded like a waterfall of voices, both tantalizingly familiar and yet incomprehensible. The cone of silence, called Babble, is a device composed of a sound processor and several speakers that multiply and scramble voices that come within its range. About the size of a clock radio, the first model is designed for a person using a phone, but other models will work in open office space.
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          • Liane H Tom S Qld
            A veritable fountain of useful information as usual Tom ! ;)
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          • Where is it?
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        • nuclear power - worst...... best hmmm electricity gotta b up there..
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          • Bluetak love it.fixes most things around the house .Worst Meth.:/
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            • Bet it doesn’t fix your hangover..!
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            • Liane H Pato Lo Duck
              Well have not required it's use for one for many a year , thankfully I'm a light weight these days thanks to other interactions pretaken daily ;) Also did not fix my notifications issues either. Wonder if I could jam it somewhere on my side tab here .??
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          • best I gotta go wheel/fire, I think the guy who made those little umbrellas they put on cocktails is a genius.... worst,well there are so many but I got to go with poker machines
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            • Best - fridge magnets, the only things that are holding my old refrigerator together.
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              • The wheel is the best invention - and please just leave it alone. We don't need anyone to reinvent it ever!
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                • I can't imagine the thought process when ciggies were discovered how they explained the process you get these leaves and you wrap them in paper and you set fire to them and you put it in your mouth and suck, it's going to be great it's going be the next big thing, id be going huh, I still go huh, don't get it at all
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                  • The ability to harness fire. To transport and utilize it for many things. To make humanoids survive incredible weather situations create new objects and help Humans make life better. The worst inventions would be those that destroy the fragile system that the Earth has had for billions of years in short space of time.
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                    • The trouble with inventions is that they are totally new and no-one has thought of them before..so its a bit tricky to know about them in advance...
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                      • Best invention is beer, followed closely by beer bottles, because without the bottles I would be drinking flat beer..
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                        • Prefer 500ml cans myself
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                        • Pato Lo DuckGRAEME W 313058
                          can't refill them...
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                        • GRAEME W 313058Pato Lo Duck
                          But can return the empties for cash
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                      • Penicillin is by far the best but I have to say mobile phones (or should I say the users) are about the worst.
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                        • The internet. The positive is the unlimited use to learn, to discover, to make the world smaller. The negative is that we are all beholden to the blessed screens. They are everywhere.
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                          • Coming out of the trees was a bad idea...and coming out of the ocean was even worse......
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                            • Especially if you were a fish or a llama…
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                            • Seriously though, inventing vacuum sealed containers has to be right up there just behind the wheel and electricity, but despite that, my money is still on beer…
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                            • APBPato Lo Duck
                              so watch out for llamas!!
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                            • I am watching them watching me everyday, and so are the goats and the kangaroos..
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                          • Something miraculous which stops and reverses climate change
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                            • So I guess what you are saying is that politicians are a really bad invention..”
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                          • best-telephone, worst-epilady
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                            • Go on peter...tell us what you were doing with the epilady....
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                            • Perhaps Peter may prefer a more hirsuit lady.. read between the lines...
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                          • The best for me has been Osseointegration! A bone-integrated prosthetic limb
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                            • Wow! Sounds great. Is that where something is implanted in the bone and the limb attached? Does it work by messages to the muscle?
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                          • worst, munitions of every kind best, vaccines A way to stop hate and prejudice, fat chance
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                            • Modern medicine and vaccines have saved countless lives
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                              • I say too each there own some will say one things others will boohoo it as having been a mum of 6 kids n 13 foster kids now 13 grandies n 1 great grandy I am sure the auto washing machine sits high on my best list .The worse would be earphone s that so many kids wear now for "sensory"issues ..
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                                • Alcohol is one of the worst. Countless lifes destroyed. It hasn't got any real worth except to the people selling it.
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                                  • Religion is the worst invention. It has been the cause of more outrages and deaths than almost anything
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                                    • Planes have enabled us to travel around the world.
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                                      • Knifes and forks, and spoons, are also a great invention. It beats using your hands. Soap, thank goodness for soap! Kills off so many germs and cleansers the skin.
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                                        • Motor vehicle is my considered best as humans oh the world can now get to cities wheotherwise they could not
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                                          • Too many things to choose from for both good and bad inventions including social media being in the most helpful and worse list.Social media can be helpful but it can also be a toxic environment.The best invention I would like to see is a cure for all cancers and diseases.
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                                            • Toilets with waste treatment. Beats going behind a bush any day although I did that for many years, using the old dunny, looking out for snakes and spiders and anything else that crawled in.
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                                              • Yep! And so better for hygiene.
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                                            • Penicillium is good , smoking is bad
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                                              • So called medicine and education. Both destroy humanity. and both are not essential, seeing correctly prescribed medicine is the 3rd highest death count, after cancer and Diabeties. Oh what about so called FAST FOOD, another poison, Seem that almost everything modern is toxic to humanity.
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                                                • Some of its good tho. But much can be toxic.
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                                              • Plumbing and gun powder...
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                                                • Mobile phones has destroyed personal communication
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                                                  • The invention of artificial light is a good thing. Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light. There are other kinds of lights. Florence Cua
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                                                    • The invention of the transistor is both the best and worst invention. This device is probably the last real “new” thing to hit the market. It’s been responsible for the development (not invention) of all kinds of imaginative products. It’s also brought us the development of very advanced weapons of mass destruction.
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                                                      • Mobile smartphones are worst invention because they give you no privacy and no one has invented one that can deter spyware removal and hacking they claim but I've tried many and not one stops issues I continue to have!!!
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                                                        • A great invention, not sure if it's the best. Worst invention? Easy, the leaf blower. Noisy as hell, aggravating and most annoying, always always over used. They should be banned.
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                                                          • The worst is defiantly Politics where a bunch of LAZY Sods decided that they deserved more then everyone else and some how conned people to pay them to be freeloaders.
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                                                            • The wheel. the best and the worst
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                                                            • Not really sure. The best ones are all mentioned and the worst too.
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                                                              • The best are appliances like the fridge, washing machine and oven. The worst the atomic bomb.
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                                                                • medicine the most wonderful inventions the internal combustion engine
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                                                                  • There are several that have turned out badly. I think they are electricity, mobile phones, and the internet. The best are the sewing machine, old-fashioned phones, fabrics, and photography. It was the evolution of the inventions that ruined them. Too much technology has ruined our ability to reason, think and socialize. We've also lost the ability to love each other and to thrive.
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                                                                    • This will require some thought.
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                                                                      • Probably all types of plastic. The government should make it law that if you make it there should be a way to reverse it to original material
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                                                                        • Electricity is the best, mobile phones the worst.
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                                                                          • best invention would be the car or train to move around and the worst is phones and technology. they have taken the fun out of living
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                                                                            • The advances in medicine have been life saving
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                                                                              • Free energy sources
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                                                                                • nice
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                                                                                  • No electricity we would have lots of fires everywhere
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                                                                                    • Worst: Religion Best: Electricity
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                                                                                      • The biggest invention I would have to say Would b the invention of electricity ...in the future.it would b nice to have future travel, transportation
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                                                                                        • Reality tv
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                                                                                          • Hard to pick there are so many in both categories
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                                                                                            • Penicillin for the best by Alexander Fleming. Worst would be cigarettes.
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                                                                                              • I would like to see rolled out in the future, are "Med Beds." These amazing beds can repair the body in a way we've never seen. Advanced medical technology. These Med Beds can correct patient medical issues to restore an individuals body to optimum state or health. It will give you perfect health. The beds can replace or grow limbs and organs and new bones and lots of instant healing etc. It can make you live longer too. This I would like to see as a rolled out invention that will help humanity in the future and put in all hospitals in all countries of the world.
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                                                                                                • Not really
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                                                                                                  • I think that cigarettes are the worst invention, I think that the phone is one of the best but not really cell phones I still have a landline and get info using that. I understand not all agree with this. Well have a good day..
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                                                                                                    • The internet is both the best AND worst.
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                                                                                                      • Electricity would be the best and because of that all the appliances we can now have in our homes.
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                                                                                                        • Micro chip human like animal. No freedom but be gps on everything a person das. Toilet are now do not needed to clear outside but go somewhere else.
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                                                                                                          • Heaters in the home-best Social media-worst
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                                                                                                            • modern nappies - I used to spend hours washing the material ones
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                                                                                                              • Invention of the future - Finnish engineers have found a way to turn sand into a giant battery. These engineers piled 100 tons of sand into a 4 x 7 metre steel container. All this sand was then heated up using wind and solar energy. This heat can then be distributed by a local energy company to provide warmth to buildings in nearby areas. Energy can be stored this way for long periods of time. All of this occurs through a concept known as resistive heating. This is where a material is heated by the friction of electrical currents. Sand and any other non-super conductor are warmed by the electricity passing through then generated heat than can be used for energy.
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                                                                                                                • Water plumbing. We are healthier, with less infections. The ancient Roman Empire used it in their fort's in Britain. We have found hollow logs to pipe the water there. They found that the troups didn't get as sick.
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                                                                                                                  • Worst ever. Cigarettes - tobacco rolled into a piece of paper was invented in the ninth century as a cigarette. In the beginning, cigarettes were just discovered as a religious ritual, and now it has become an addiction. Cigarette smoking is harmful to health, and it causes death as well. Around half of smokers die from tobacco-related diseases, and don’t get me started on second-hand smoke (passive smoking), due to this, it’s one of the worst inventions ever.
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                                                                                                                    • I'd like fusion energy to be commercially available with public able to access in the next 10 years. That's unlikely to happen though - more likely to be 30 years. I think the best invention was the dynamo and harnessing moving magnets for doing hard work for humans. Electro magnets in general really. Worst invention is asbestos insulation.
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                                                                                                                      • Best ever - The Printing Press - Johannes Gutenberg is known as the inventor of the printing press who developed the first ever printing press in Europe in the 15th century and named it the Gutenberg press. The printing press allowed production of texts and other reading material. It is only through this invention that people have been able to voice their opinion and be able to speak up for themselves. Through the invention of the printing press, the newspapers, books and novels and all sorts of documentaries have been made available for the world to read. Today there are electronic and more technological methods to create books and newspapers, but it all began with this great invention that is the Printing Press.
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                                                                                                                        • Best insulin. Worst social media.
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                                                                                                                          • I once heard, "writing" is the greatest invention humans have ever made. I'd agree with that, like nothing could ever be passed on. or not much. the worst Invention, is inflation, it is destroying everything. When so many people like it.
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                                                                                                                            • I think either electricity in homes or automobile are best. We depend on both! Worst—idk.
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                                                                                                                              • The dishwasher
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                                                                                                                                • The best and worst all in one = neighbours.
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                                                                                                                                  • Worst would be humans and as*ho****. Same difference I guess.
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                                                                                                                                    • The best: Language and writing. The worst: Language and writing.
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                                                                                                                                      • I will go for one of the inventions they don't talk about in the history books (at least here in the states). It would be hard to choose one, but definitely a healing area. Electricity that Edison wasn't involved in. Paint markers!
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                                                                                                                                        • Those clackers, two hard heavy plastic balls on string we used to clack together. So many eyes damaged due to those toys
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                                                                                                                                          • The Best!
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                                                                                                                                            • Best invention ever,so clever
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                                                                                                                                              • The mobile phone has shown that people can become obsessed. Health issues have been addressed from brain tumours and eye damage. Back and neck pain.
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                                                                                                                                                • Riding mowers are great, but the back-up camera in my car is the best. 8-track tapes were the dumbest.
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                                                                                                                                                  • rubbing 2 sticks together to create fire is best and guns are worst
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                                                                                                                                                    • I can understand why you say guns (at least I think), but guns are really good tools. Unfortunately, people use the tool for doing things that aren't good.
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                                                                                                                                                    • I think Microwaves is the best invention is because you don't have to warm up your food in the oven.
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                                                                                                                                                      • The best and worst invention has definitely been humans.
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                                                                                                                                                      • In my opinion the most used and useful invention of all time, in all of its forms and varieties, would have to be the knife. Can be used for either good or bad and has been essential in the process of making so many more inventions possible...especially sandwiches.
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                                                                                                                                                        • One of the worst inventions in modern times has been the Vaccines...we had to have, for covid. Useless, just useless!
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                                                                                                                                                          • A cure for cancer, please.
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                                                                                                                                                            • Cannabis cures cancer. Just ask Rick Simpson. Don't run from the cure.
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                                                                                                                                                            • I believe it is out there, but the powers that be will not release it because there is too much money in keeping us sick.
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                                                                                                                                                          • I think nuclear fusion has been a real downer and may even demolish this beautiful earth of ours. Second I do think the internet although it has some wonderful benefits has also caused more problems than it is worth. Invention to help humanity. Mmm perhaps politicians who are not power hungry egotists and just do a great job.
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                                                                                                                                                            • The toilet, as it prevented many millions of infections and death from germs. Certain diseases were once common... even in western countries, centuries ago, now its really only a issue for the poor and developing nations. Penicillin and Xrays, have had a great impact in the field of medicine . Cars have had both a good and bad impact.
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                                                                                                                                                              • I will say electricity - which we take for granted (could not resist the cliche - lol) - until we are coping with a power outage (lack of electricity - unexpectedly).
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                                                                                                                                                                • I don't know if you coppied a previous topic on this subject but its been done before. People keep repeating topics on here.
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                                                                                                                                                                  • There are so many. Electricity to run my microwave.
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                                                                                                                                                                    • Electricity, without it, we would not have most of the things that we have now.
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                                                                                                                                                                      • People managed without it just fine centuries ago. Not totally essential.
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                                                                                                                                                                    • I say air conditioning. Must admit I wouldn't like to live without it now.
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