The results are in and the winner is . . .

What innovations have changed the way life is lived and the way business is done since Nightly Business Report premiered in 1979?  Here are the top ten on their list:

  1. The Internet (Broadband and the World Wide Web interface)
  2. The PC (and laptops)
  3. Mobile phones
  4. E-mail
  5. DNA testing and sequencing (Human genome mapping)
  6. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  7. Microprocessors
  8. Fiber optics
  9. Office software (Spreadsheets, word processors)
  10. Non-invasive laser/robotic surgery (Laparoscopy)

You can find the entire list at the following link: 

http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/features/special/top-30-innovations_home/

It sure makes you think, doesn't it?  What unimagined innovations will change the way we live and do business in the next 30 years?  Perhaps something like this:

Make no mistake: The next 30 years will be the most exciting times in the history of the world to be alive.

Posted February 17, 2009
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Bill Gammell

Tom,

Great little video, thanks for sharing.

I can't believe that I'm going to be once of those "In my days" types and tell my kids that we had to type to get to web pages (if that's what they'll be called).

Posted by: Bill Gammell | February 17, 2009 at 12:35 PM

Office Cleaning Edinburgh

Does anyone know what is happening to this invention right now? Has it been implemented in any common devices?

Posted by: Office Cleaning Edinburgh | October 05, 2009 at 09:35 AM

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