• Question: what do you think is the most important invention?

    Asked by The Van-Der-Webbers to Stu, Euan, Deborah, Maheen, Rob on 22 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by TOPBANANA, mollymooo.
    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Probably penicillin. It was the first antibiotic and it has saved millions and millions of lives. It opened a new era of medical research and has improved more lives than you could count 🙂

    • Photo: Maheen Siddiqui

      Maheen Siddiqui answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      I think that computers were a really important invention. They have completely transformed our lives and the scientific community!

    • Photo: Euan Allen

      Euan Allen answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Hi The Van-Der-Webbers – so many to choose from! Fire? Farming? Agriculture? Electricity? Medicine? The internet?

      If I had to limit myself to the most important invention in the last 50 years or so, I would have to agree with Maheen and say the modern computer. Nearly everything we take for granted now: mobile phones, laptops, the internet, cars, aeroplanes, music and film production, …, all rely on a computer at some point in the process. We’d really be at a loss without them.

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