Your country's greatest achievment

[Zanza]

There is a difference between Internet and internet?

By the way, I'd say the internet was the greatest invention of the 20th century, eclipsing stuff like spaceflight or nuclear fission. The internet has changed the daily lifes of billions and has not yet realized its full potential.
That said, spaceflight might still outdo it if it ever becomes viable for mass use.

[Grey Fox]

Brits are insane.

[The Brain]

By the way, I'd say the internet was the greatest invention of the 20th century, eclipsing stuff like spaceflight or nuclear fission. The internet has changed the daily lifes of billions and has not yet realized its full potential.

Yes, obviously.

[Barrister]

There is a difference between Internet and internet?

By the way, I'd say the internet was the greatest invention of the 20th century, eclipsing stuff like spaceflight or nuclear fission. The internet has changed the daily lifes of billions and has not yet realized its full potential.
That said, spaceflight might still outdo it if it ever becomes viable for mass use.

The internet is cool and all, but in the 20th century I'd have to say that manned flight, the automobile, and penecillin are all greater.  They've had far more effect on far more people.  And that's just off the top of my head.

[Zanza]

The automobile was invented in the 19th century.

Manned flight is a good one, so is penicillin. The Green Revolution is of course a big one too. I'd still go with the internet I think. Mainly because it still has so much potential. It will become way more pervasive than it is now.

[Barrister]

My vote for the greatest American invention of all time is the forward pass.

[The Brain]

There is a difference between Internet and internet?

By the way, I'd say the internet was the greatest invention of the 20th century, eclipsing stuff like spaceflight or nuclear fission. The internet has changed the daily lifes of billions and has not yet realized its full potential.
That said, spaceflight might still outdo it if it ever becomes viable for mass use.

The internet is cool and all, but in the 20th century I'd have to say that manned flight, the automobile, and penecillin are all greater.  They've had far more effect on far more people.  And that's just off the top of my head.

Are you agreeing or disagreeing or neither? Both?

[Zanza]

I would have to say that, using some conventional metric and looking at something that has had and continues to have an impact all over the world:

Based on that, I'd say that the reformation was perhaps the greatest German (not exclusively of course) positive contribution to world history.

[Viking]

My vote for the greatest American invention of all time is the forward pass.

Heisman

[Caliga]

It will become way more pervasive than it is now.

It is the precursor to the Human Hive Mind.

[Barrister]

There is a difference between Internet and internet?

By the way, I'd say the internet was the greatest invention of the 20th century, eclipsing stuff like spaceflight or nuclear fission. The internet has changed the daily lifes of billions and has not yet realized its full potential.
That said, spaceflight might still outdo it if it ever becomes viable for mass use.

The internet is cool and all, but in the 20th century I'd have to say that manned flight, the automobile, and penecillin are all greater.  They've had far more effect on far more people.  And that's just off the top of my head.

Are you agreeing or disagreeing or neither? Both?

Disagreeing.  There were many greater inventions in the 20th century than the internet.

How about computers at all?  Or home computers?  Pesticides/green revolution, saving millions if not billions from starvation?  The birth control pill, saving us from Malthusian doom?

I think people like Zanza might vote for the internet because it's a change that has happened within our lifetimes, so we've seen how dramatic a change it has been.  But other things we take for granted (like penecillin) have probably caused much greater change.

[Barrister]

I would have to say that, using some conventional metric and looking at something that has had and continues to have an impact all over the world:

Based on that, I'd say that the reformation was perhaps the greatest German (not exclusively of course) positive contribution to world history.

Good one.

[Ed Anger]

the internet sucks.

[The Brain]

There is a difference between Internet and internet?

By the way, I'd say the internet was the greatest invention of the 20th century, eclipsing stuff like spaceflight or nuclear fission. The internet has changed the daily lifes of billions and has not yet realized its full potential.
That said, spaceflight might still outdo it if it ever becomes viable for mass use.

The internet is cool and all, but in the 20th century I'd have to say that manned flight, the automobile, and penecillin are all greater.  They've had far more effect on far more people.  And that's just off the top of my head.

Are you agreeing or disagreeing or neither? Both?

Disagreeing.  There were many greater inventions in the 20th century than the internet.

How about computers at all?  Or home computers?  Pesticides/green revolution, saving millions if not billions from starvation?  The birth control pill, saving us from Malthusian doom?

I think people like Zanza might vote for the internet because it's a change that has happened within our lifetimes, so we've seen how dramatic a change it has been.  But other things we take for granted (like penecillin) have probably caused much greater change.

Your heresy has been noted. I will observe that a lack of humans was not a great problem in 1900.

[Rasputin]

Indeed nobody remember the Magna carter either.

It hasn't been 1,000 years yet.

Also it's amusing how you try to take a shot at me and don't even know how to spell "Magna Carta" correctly. 

Ahem...


Magna Charta