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What was the most important invention in the last 100 years?

701 sats \ 24 comments \ @Aardvark 15 Mar AskSN

There's a whole lot of them to choose from.

The electric bidet

I've used a bidet one time in my entire life. I just happened to have to shit at a place that just happened to have one.

I have to tell you, it's definitely the cleanest I've ever felt after a shit, and as a truck driver, I appreciate that more than you think.

I really should get one. They make ones that you can just mount to the inside of your toilet, but I'm lazy.

109 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 15 Mar

That's what we have. You mount it right on your bowl. Look, cell phones and the internet are great and all that, but we're talking about a huge step in human advancement.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 16 Mar

a bic pen

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @Bell_curve 15 Mar

Steely Dan dildo

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @TNStacker 15 Mar

my girl says it's the wand

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 15 Mar

Yea my "girl" says so too. 😉

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 15 Mar

🫡

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 16 Mar

bahaha

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 15 Mar

Gonna have to take your word on that one. 🤣

52 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 15 Mar

gotta be the internet. Maybe nuclear weapons.

I would have said internal combustion engine/car, but that would be outside of your time range. So internet or nukes, even though both of them are gradual processes of iteration rather than in-the-moment innovations.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 15 Mar

God bless Al Gore, I think he invented both of them.

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 15 Mar

This is a more than 100 years but the chlorination of water has to be in the top ten!

So many people used to die from drinking dirty water. Now it is mostly a poverty issue as to why humans don’t have access to clean water

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark OP 15 Mar

It's amazing how much of a difference clean drinking water makes. People take it for granted now, but it is such a basic thing, and not having it has to be an incredible burden.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @endothermicdev 15 Mar

I'm setting off tomorrow on a 5 day canoeing trip. There was definitely a lot of thought and planning around how to get potable water for drinking, cooking, cleaning up, etc. over the course of the trip for 15 people. It really makes you appreciate everyday access to clean water from the tap.

57 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 15 Mar

No one said Bitcoin yet? I am disappoint.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 15 Mar

It's because we still think of the last 100 years as 1900 to 2000 haha

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 15 Mar

I know right? That has ro be pretty high in the list.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 15 Mar

We're still within a hundred years of sliced bread, so I'll go with that one.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 15 Mar

integrated circuit

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 15 Mar

Yea, I guess those are pretty important! A lot of the inventions in technology over that period were only possible because of integrated circuits.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SevenOfNine 15 Mar

Freedom money

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ContraMundum5 6h

Has to be the internet. It completely changed how we communicate, learn, work, and even think. It connected the world in ways people never imagined, gave everyone access to endless information, and created entire new industries. Nothing else has had the same level of impact on daily life.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @orto 16 Mar

Computers.....