Every generation experiences new inventions that shape the way people live, work, and communicate.
Looking back over the last 50–100 years, which invention do you think has had the greatest impact on everyday life—for better or worse?
The automobile allowed people to flee their home towns and relocate to suburbs and cities disconnecting them from extended family. The first step in destroying family influence on children.
Public education, the second step in destroying family influence, allowed the inculcation of a secular culture in successive generations until Christianity had been driven to the fringe of society.
it could be the light bulb. It revolutionized everything and led men to look much further into electricity and it’s power. Edison failed many, many times trying to make a viable light bulb and finally succeeded.
**Thomas Edison viewed failure not as defeat but as a necessary step toward success, famously stating, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
One of the most influential and life-changing is definitely the computer and the internet. For many reasons, but I think post-COVID, particularly for work. My grandparents or even my parents couldn’t fathom a type of job that is completely on a computer and can be done completely remotely!