For you. What has been the best invention in history?

Question

For you. What has been the best invention in history?

Answer 1

aprt from food and air and water (tnx god)

music

Answer 2

Harnessed electricity

Answer 3

Electricity [which leads to computers ^.^ ]

Answer 4

Music...

Answer 5

running water

Answer 6

Internet

iPod

Youtube

car

air conditioning

Answer 7

Computer

Answer 8

The movable type printing press. this made lots of info available to the average person.  This was precursor to the PC.

Answer 9

living in the south i will say AC and refrigeration...

Answer 10

lets see....almost everything. But i am grateful that there is food and running water. :]

Answer 11

I guess until today, internet.. instant communication, no distances, information at hand for free.. it´s just amazing!

Answer 12

The wheel.

Answer 13

Water filtration system.

Answer 14

Toilet Paper.

Answer 15

Pulley

Answer 16

the gun because there would be no america cause the indians would of killed the colonizers so there would be no computer videogames and you would probably be living in another region

Answer 17

I studied history under William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago.  If I remember correctly from his lectures, he believed that the three most significant inventions in human history (a little different from what you are asking) were close-order drill, the potato, and the moldboard plow.

Answer 18

My vote goes to the matches or even better - the lighter.

Answer 19

knowledge

but its not really an "invention" its more like accessibility

Answer 20

spray paint