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Ideas that changed the world.

  • 09-03-2016 12:12PM
    #1
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭


    Only recently we discovered (not After Hours) the existence of gravitational waves in space, proving Einstein right after all these years.

    Women's day reminded us that women hadn't always got the right to vote and most women do.

    The single biggest one might be the invention of the printing press which enabled the propagation and formation of all ideas.

    Any more big ones?


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Comments

  • #2
    Torricelli
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Torricelli


    Adblock Plus.


  • #3
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Cultivation


  • #4
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Right, so you see that bus over there .... So how about we put some wings on it and stick a propeller on the front and then fly the thing with people in it, like a bus in the sky! And let's call it an aeroplane.


  • #5
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    We'll put a computer on every desk and in every home...


    The Magna Carta wasn't bad either.


  • #6
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Only recently we discovered (not After Hours) the existence of gravitational waves in space, proving Einstein right after all these years.

    And how exactly does that change the world for the ordinary working man in the street?


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  • #7
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Plastic


  • #8
    Lights On
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭Lights On


    The Fleshlight. The man who came up with that idea is a hero.


  • #9
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    gramar wrote: »
    And how exactly does that change the world for the ordinary working man in the street?

    Potential revolution in communications.


  • #10
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Boolean algebra, without which every modern electronic may not exist.
    And most people have never heard if George Boole :mad:


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Cabs on tractors. No more huddling around in donkey jackets when it's pishing the rain, everybody can lie in the Zetor listening to Declan Nerney.


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  • #12
    Keane2baMused
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Keane2baMused


    Antibiotics


  • #13
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    The internet and all the glorious porn it brought us...................I suppose the social and commercial side of the web too, but.................porn!

    Also, the 80's! :pac:


  • #14
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    The wheel is a mad yoke - great invention.
    And honorable mention to the Loaf of bread.


  • #15
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    gramar wrote: »
    And how exactly does that change the world for the ordinary working man in the street?

    We don't know yet but the increased understanding of quantum mechanics led to the discovery of the laser, the transistor, the electron microscope, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

    Increases in our understanding of scientific phenomenon often have hugely unpredicted benefits for mankind.


  • #16
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Lights On wrote: »
    The Fleshlight. The man who came up with that idea is a hero.

    I presume you mean a flashlight/torch (and not a fleshlight)? although you might be into something there in the naughty department, a torch to light up the flesh? :)


  • #17
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Your Face wrote: »
    Potential revolution in communications.

    So it hasn't changed anything if it's only a potential revolution.

    It took a 100 years to be confirmed and we all lived fairly happily not knowing one way or the other.


  • #18
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Incognito browsing.


  • #19
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Electrification.


  • #20
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Lying.

    Remember before lying became a thing? It was so easy to catch people out on stuff.

    Then... LYING.

    Now I don't know what's going on half the time.... or do I? (See? I could be lying - it's so confusing!)


  • #21
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Television & Hollywood.

    Imagine a world where everybody spoke in their own accents and didn't feel the need to say like every 5 seconds, and dressed in what they thought looked nice, not what some producer in California decided looked nice.


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  • #22
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    gramar wrote: »
    And how exactly does that change the world for the ordinary working man in the street?

    I'm not a theoretical physicist by profession but I assume this is the first step towards the availability of hoverboards for the mass market.


  • #23
    ClovenHoof
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ClovenHoof


    Art and Philosophy. Regardless of what TV presenters such as Bill Nye state.

    Without imagination and creativity nothing else is possible.


  • #24
    Ri_Nollaig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    Lights On wrote: »
    The Fleshlight. The man who came up with that idea is a hero.

    I heard he is a bit of a wanker...


  • #25
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    sabat wrote: »
    I'm not a theoretical physicist by profession but I assume this is the first step towards the availability of hoverboards for the mass market.

    Will it give transporters?

    I'd bloody love a transporter. Have to get a train in a while...sake...


  • #26
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Sliced bread.


  • #27
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Combining dough, sauce, cheese and meat and oven baking.


  • #28
    1hnr79jr65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭1hnr79jr65


    Atomic bomb, without it being dreamed of we wouldnt have likes of north korea threatening everyone.


  • #29
    JustShon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭JustShon


    The micro chip, we wouldn't be having this discussion otherwise. I wouldn't have a job either.


  • #30
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Self awareness - Before this breakthrough we were just hitting rocks together and killing Antelope.


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  • #31
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Boolean algebra, without which every modern electronic may not exist.
    And most people have never heard if George Boole :mad:

    Didn't he invent a new form of transport which everyone at the time aplauded?

    The Boole Bus


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