What do you think is the greatest invention in your lifetime so far?

@Teggy you ain't wrong that's for sure

@Teggy Yup. You need a license to own a dog but anyone can be a parent. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@ElwoodBlues Well, I figured you understood the when, and I agree about age-ism.

That truly IS the single most technologically transformative invention of the period, hands-down.

@SomeMichGuy I just looked up Texas Instruments, and they got into the transistor manufacturing business independent of Shockley Semiconductor. I had assumed that anyone who knew how to manufacture transistors had learned it from Shockley and then spun off, like Fairchild Semi, Intel, National, et al.

But TI engineers learned the process from reading patents & publications, and by examining samples provided by Bell Labs. Shockley left Bell Labs and founded his company around the time TI first announced they were manufacturing discrete transistors.

Anyway it came up because Kilby from TI and Noyce from Fairchild independently invented ICs. Kilby won the Nobel in 2000 for the invention; I'm sure Noyce would have shared in the award (Noyce applied earlier and got the first IC patent) but he died in 1990 and Nobels only go to the living.

@ElwoodBlues If Shockley had been nice, we'd STILL have Shockley Electronics. He was an ass even to his co-recipients of the Nobel Prize.

@Human1000 The Thigh Master 2000 a close second.

@JimboSaturn Absolutely! Susanne Sommers is a tremendous 20th Century inventor.

@Human1000 We would be ungroomed, flabby-thighed people without these breakthroughs.

@Pfuzylogic ha! I used to be so good at that game.

@Bexsy That game can easily invade your dreams! 😱

@saragoodtimes
Totally agree with you!

@saragoodtimes ohh, i need a car that has that

@Bexsy what you talking bout car it's on my bicycle

@AbbeyRhode yasssss

@DarkHeaven Never say die! Fight every fight like it was your last! I'm certain we will fight against the machines one day.

@Nitedoc same. 😔

@DarkHeaven 👊

@NerdyPotato I do agree with you. It will take a change in attitude from the business/construction end. Why don't you start a campaign. Seriously, why don't you.

@Nitedoc already working on awareness, with a worldwide network. 👍

@NerdyPotato Excellent! I always like hearing from doers instead of complainers.

@Mindful NO! ............................The only thing they are good for is watching idiots with the walk into light poles, signs, holes and into on coming traffic...................but then again it does eliminate dumb liberals.

@bijouxbroussard That's true. I do think it's a great invention. Just not the greatest. I don't know what the greatest invention is. It's a matter of perspective.

@Nitedoc It [b]is[/b] perspective. "Greatest" is almost always subjective.

@bijouxbroussard True, I sometimes have my blinders on.

@Sroonaka616 glad to be of service