• Question: what invention would you say has changed the life we live now ?

    Asked by Sophie to Gavin, Karen, Mark, Michel, Roisin on 9 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Michel Destrade

      Michel Destrade answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      I’d say the washing machine. It freed women of virtual slavery and allowed them to work outside the house. The whole society was changed!

    • Photo: Karen

      Karen answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      That’s a very good question. There are so many things that have completely changed the way we live from the invention of the wheel to electricity to the internet etc… However I will say plumbing (invented by the romans as far as I remember) allowing us to have toilets, baths, washing machines for the ladies ? etc…
      Since my field is medicine tho, I think the greatest Discovery was antibiotics…

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      Roisin Jones answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Oh God there are so many! I think thought, in terms of the sheer amount of change that it’s brought to people’s lives (both positive and negative), I would have to go with the internet. It’s changed the way we interact, the way we communicate, the way we consume media, come in contact with new ideas, share information…I think it’s made the world a very different place!

    • Photo: Mark Kennedy

      Mark Kennedy answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      I absolutely agree with Roisin. The internet has fundamentally changed our world.

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