What do you think the most important technology on the planet is

Condoms.

Probably the transistor.

Depends. It also gave us the means to produce industrial quantities of explosives.

You'd have a lot short and vicious wars over land followed by extermination of the natives (you).

KYS and reported.

It is without a doubt the Internet

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kys butthurt animefag

The dream of every totalitarian dictator of the past.

People voluntarily retreating into solitary confinement, they have to pay for it and when they're outside of it to work for the money they get withdrawl symptoms.

>of the past

Your mom's vagina bones. Dem piece of machinery

but i gave a real answer! Genetic Engineering is obviously the most important technological field.

Contraception.

food

both covered by

Steam engine.

Abortion medicine

Never had heard of it. Very interesting.

Quoting Wikipedia:
>Nearly 80% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber-Bosch process.

Holy crap.

>Semens
HAHHAHAHAHHA funding German cucks bahaha

Power generation. No power plants, no electricity to power everything else.

This. Most important current tech? Fission reactors. Most important future tech? Fusion reactors.

Dampfturbine-Montage technology, obviously.

>Fission
We're still burning coal and natural gas for most of our power

Most important modern tech is the steam turbine. No matter what exotic fuel is used, it'll just be used to boil water to spin some turbine

You could kind of keep going with this train of thought and argue that, e.g. the Linz-Donauwitz process (oxygen steelmaking) is important because it allows for the mass-production of steel in the first place...

We need Thorium. It's much safer than uranium, more abundant on Earth and can't be weaponised.

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Agreed
Until we get fusion to work, that is.

That was going to be my answer too, now that it's no longer a lottery.

Until recently, we had to bombard DNA with chemicals and radiation and hope that, over time, we could randomly end up with the traits we wanted or close enough to cross breed the traits we wanted. It took months-years to get results if we were very lucky, and was incredibly expensive between the labs and the radioactive material/chemicals.

Now, thanks to CRISPR and CAS-9, anyone with a lab and a bit of know-how can program CAS-9 to output the DNA with exactly the traits we want, in hours-weeks, rather than months-years, and the cost dropped to 1% of what it used to be. So now, projects that would cost millions of dollars and take a very long time to MAYBE see results costs thousands of dollars for guaranteed results practically overnight.

We live in an amazing fucking time, Cred Forums. I know you're all thinking that means you can make your waifu into a real person, but think about this: no more organ transplant waiting lists; you can have an organ created for you from your own DNA and not have to worry about things like post transplant organ rejection. Hell, we're literally on the precipice of true immortality. The only thing stopping us is defining consciousness and learning how to transfer it out of a human body. You could be on the verge of death, and have your consciousness moved to a brand new, absolutely perfect, 18 year old body made from YOUR DNA, so it's still you... Just with all the imperfections removed.

Agriculture

>a discussion about technology
>in Cred Forums - Technology
Someone cap this thread

>We won't fight about it and blow ourselves up before this(or most of the tech in this thread desu) ever produces a net increase in human quality of life.

>tfw I genuinely believe I won't die from old age, and expect to live to 1,000

Hope I'm right lads

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shut up you fucking cunt you know what OP means

kys desu senpai

Woah.... made my neurons fire

You should actually commit suicide irl.

You too, you stupid r3ddit frogposter.

Why should I commit suicide, for wanting to live forever or believing aging will be cured in our lifetimes?

And I'll post frogs as much as I want.

electricity and its delivery

Not him, but those two are terrible, horrible ideas. The world can't sustain a constantly growing population like that.

gnu/linux

stupid frogposter

don't reply to him, whatever he says has no merit since he posts frogs all day

I'd take having immortality if it meant I couldn't ever have children any day.

we'll need the genetic robustness required for immortality to be able to actually leave the solar systems as humans or at least some descendant of us.

that way a few ships can take some hits and they can just mend and mate accordingly

assuming the whole faster-than-light thing is not pwned at some point

>le frogposter maymay

Sorry if I didn't attach something for people of your intellectual caliber.

>posting the frog's dad who rapes him at night
Fuck off r3ddit

Woahhhhhh.... this is deep, never looked at it like this before.

desalination

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>redditor calls other people redditors

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Fire

Thanks Prometheus.

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>dubs
instant win
Thanks, Lori.

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it's like the japanese porn version but they thought the whole pepe was too obscene

Hiro's attempts to cut bandwidth costs.

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nuclear technology is some of the most impotent technology we have developed so far.

The new Apple iPhone 7

see webm related

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Lasers
Transistor

>We can all get our DNA tailored at the local gene splicer.
We can all get our own genetically engineered biomeatfucktoy at the local waifu store.

this, without agriculture we would have no transistors, power plants and steam engines

if you know some history (most of you don't since you're American), the rise of agricultural technology started the development of cities which started the development of civilization

>We can all get our own genetically engineered biomeatfucktoy at the local waifu store.

How crass. I just want a baby goat boy that i can raise as my own and to cuddle and protect their smile

>we can modify DNA efficiently now
The hard part is understanding it, we understand next to nothing of the DNA.
messing with data on the DNA we don't understand will just result in heavily damaged/dead organisms.

how long until mainstream vertical farms in the west? the current design is inefficient in delivering light, wasteful with water, and prone to uncontrollable infestation. tower farming in controlled environments would mitigate these factors yet we continue to neglect investing in these here

graviton generators

>modifying genetics

We House of the Scorpion now boys

By this logic, the most important piece of technology is fire, or stone tools to fight off predators.

sewing is one that is overlooked. people need clothes and it's actually a huge industry/process and not just a needle and thread

see the discussion about haber-bosch above, food is much more necessary for living thanclothes

Why isn't he jogging?

>What do you think the most important technology on the planet is
Soap

the wheel

The female vagina.

Plumming

>Plumming

the korean time machine

you had to make it weird, be cool, just

Agri tech (harvesters, etc)... plus chemical engineering that makes fertilizer.

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Electricity hands down.

Smart reply Confirmed

Goat,

If we're talking "technology" technology, then this.

If we're talking "technology" technology, then this.

If we're talking "wrong" answers, then this

Seriously? The entire scope of human anthropology and you chose an oversized magnifying glass and a mile wide racetrack for glorified leptons? Your answer is objectively wrong and you should neck yourself fast.

Hi, Tyler Durden

Definitely the internet, but the most exciting new technology(s) is probably reusable rocket boosters, or genetic engineering.

no need to hurry one's pace when the subjects are standing still

Microprocessors are practically magic

The extra food is used to produce meat. Without those excess food, meat will be expensive as hell.

Actually your wrong the LHC is expanding our understanding of the universe that is the most important thing humanity can do if it wants to continue to be a civilization.

The internet is just a glorified telephone that we use to spread memes. Its useful but its mostly just a convenient way to rely information

No one invented fire it has limited useful applications in todays world and even in the past plus it is fairly dangerous.

That being said the wheel is probably the most useful technology at least in the context of human history and unlike fire we will continue to use wheels forever even if humanity becomes a type 3 civilization we are still gonna have stuff with wheels on it.

Well to be fair, for it's cost the LHC is kind of shit. Physicists are so cunty though, they need to find this fucking particle or that fucking particle, so they spend billions of (taxpayer) dollars on these things.

Things like Hubble or the new James Webb Space Telescope are pretty dope and important to discovering life outside the planet. Whether or not there's dark matter and dark energy (physicist's way of saying "i don't know what the fuck is going on) is not as important.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852

A pressing need of the JWST is to determine if the aliens have built a Dyson Sphere or not.

well it's far better than wasting money on some niggers in a shit crusted african village

I've been on this goddamn website so long I can't tell when people are trolling or not anymore. I'm going to reply just in case you're being serious.

The LHC is a fucking SPECK in the vast history of human imagination. Fire was as much an invention of man as it was the inventor of it. Farming, stone tools, the written word, these are all EXCELLENT answers to vie for; to understand the weight they had on human society, impossible standards for continued advancement, unmatched by any invention of the cotton gin, the rotary phone, the pen, in retrospect, mere novelties for mankind's curiosity.

Even the wheel, the most prestigious of human invention, was not discovered by the natives of the Andals, or by the Incas and the Mayans. Even the great residents of Peru did not discover the wheel until the Spaniards had already discovered it for them.

The internet, like all great inventions, did not just "do" and sit put. The internet, like all great inventions, propelled human forethought into an expression of worldwide homogeneity. To collaborate with physicists in Korea to naturists in France. To read the works of Darwin, Luther, and Jesus of Nazareth all within the day; free of any charge beside the provider of your local Starbucks.

A collaboration between the human ally, wit and creativity, to foster true genius beyond just domesticated willingness; but to heed more and more until the world churns like a great machine in a newly renovated factory.

THESE are the great wonders of the world. Fire; to harvest man's passion and wield it in the form of tragedy and comedy, and electricity; that which courses through the veins of modern man, charging his heart into that sense of wonderment and bravery that leads us forward from future to yonder.

So shut the fuck up, nerd. You don't know shit.

Actually, indigenous peoples had the wheel. What they did not have was the axle.

no
t. digital logic enthusiast

>fire has limited useful application
gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8
welding
coal/oil powerplants
etc.
i'm sure you can find a million more reasons

>to determine if the aliens have built a Dyson Sphere or not.
I don't know whether to hope that is the case or not.

On one end it sounds bad ass and gives us hope that one day we will become a space fairing civilization capable of construction mega structures of such scale.

On the other end such an alien civilization could spell our demise if they one day decide we are a threat or nuisance.

Even if it is an abandoned old relic of the past, good luck getting there.

Well, observation could tell us a lot about how, and we can infer when and why from that as well.

But I agree that we are not doing our species a service by advertising our position in the universe. If there is a spacefaring threat, we're in grave danger of it reaching us before we are prepared.

The only hope we have on our side is the speed of light is a constant, and FTL is impossible. In which case me might be ok.

The drilldo .

The speed of light limitation has only been proven theoretically at this point and perhaps practically through the use of a particle accelerator, I am clueless in that field.

I haven't heard of any attempt to accelerate a vessel in the vacuum of space to test such limitations on a larger scale.

Hopefully it would only be a matter of time until someone achieves a breakthrough and finds some way around such a limitation through some naturally occurring phenomena or freak incident.

Our first sensible step should be to find a way to escape earth's gravity without wasting what precious fuel we have left.

the linux kernel

The speed of light limitation is really solid. If we find magnetic monopoles or something with negative energy density or some shit like that then I'd start to doubt but until then we're pretty shit out of luck.

Not that I'm not hoping.

Yeah except one thing- they don't work or fight.
People who don't work or fight (or produce those that do) are useless in dictatorships.

Even if we found those things, the speed of light thing is so solid that even if you try and use wormholes then you're still travelling faster than light. You still break causality as you arrive at your location before you left.

What about not aiming to break the speed of light itself but figure out instead how to reduce the distance traveled in space?

Same thing. If you went somewhere and back you'd see yourself returning before you left.

Read "The Alchemy of Air," by Thomas Hagar if you've got the time. It's about the Haber and Bosch and how the process came to be, very interesting read.

Timekeeping

The end goal of arriving at a destination quickly would still be achieved though, would it not?

Fire

wait, nvm I think I get what you are saying. That if you travel so fast that time goes backwards you won't travel at all.

God damn this is fucking with my brain.

slavery.

Well no since time travel is impossible
Arriving before you left is basically the same as saying you destroyed the whole universe

This universe is too outdated and acking for a replacement/update anyway

my computer with a super advanced OS installed on it

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No that's not what I'm saying- I'm saying it's impossible. It's impossible to arrive somewhere before you left, and FTL travel (no matter what kind) will result in this.

So you are telling me only robots will know the joy of traveling light years away in a single lifetime.

The robotic womb that spawned this guy

I feel like either electrical generation or antibiotics.

Electricity lets us extend the amount of time we can be active during the day and the year with electric lighting and electric heating.

Antibiotics, on the other hand, are the cornerstone of modern medicine. Antibiotics are what separate the first world from Uganda.

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Canned food.

pure science like the type they're doing with the LHC always looks like high-concept, abstract bullshit until some engineers get their hands on it in a couple of years. Give it some time, user. Good things are on the way.

>150 years plus since the relative overpopulation theorem was disproven. Get your science straight before you post in a technology thread.

δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ kαὶ τὰν γᾶν kινάσω.

The inflatable love scorpion.

The wheel, dude.

Try and find something you own that wasn't made using a wheel somewhere in its production. Or transported.

something about this pic makes me really uncomfortable. God damn.

The disposable cat.

Armor plated swimwear.

Reddit

holy hell

fleshlight

the semiconductor

Either fire or agriculture

Why don't you post some user so we can appreciate it on this 'Technology' board.

The flushable toilet or antibiotics, if you're going by number of lives saved.

My personal choice would be the vibrator, if you're going by quality of life.

flushable toilet and antibiotics would never have been invented without the population density provided by agriculture

almost all technology created could not have been created without sufficient population densities and specification of tasks

agriculture is clearly the most important technology

>fire it has limited useful applications in todays world
I guess you dont need glass, cement, metal, plastic, combustiin engines, cars, airplanes, boats, boilers, power plants, wielding etc. Fire is used when shaping most materials. And you eat raw food every day.

And historically fire improved our diet so our brains could grow. Fire provided safety from predators so people formed communities around it. Fire provided warmth so people could migrate out of Africa.

second

Probably electricity

Without fire no steam engines, gas, oil or nuclear plants. And no plastic windmills. Or metals or copper to guide the electricity.

Everything that is related to food.

>I watched a documentary and I have absolutely no idea if it was factually accurate but I like to pretend I do.

Haber process.

>no nuclear plants
Nuclear plants don't use fire though. Or do you mean that we need fire in order to even create a nuclear plant?

Don't they use it for the ignition?

Fire. You should narrow the scope of your question.

probably arrows and spears

Fire.

Without that we wouldn't be any different than the average chimp.

[spoiler]excluding niggers, they're beyond saving[/spoiler], [spoiler]4000 years and they're still hunter gatherers[/spoiler]

The transistor is without a doubt one of the most important technical innovations of all time. Not just for the fast switching that made digital logic possible but also for its use in a wide variety of analog applications like amplifiers and active filters.

Imagine if we were still stuck with vacuum tubes instead of transistors. You would have no cell phone or portable computer. It just would not be possible.

Peanut Butter

I think they just put the radioactive elements really close together until there's enough particles zipping around to sustain a chain reaction.

Ignite what? There is no ignition in a nuclear plant.

Fuel rods are fissile. You kick off the reaction with neutrons either that you either put into the system to start it or since the fuel itself will naturally undergo fission at a slow rate use that. When the fuel rods are close to one another with neutron moderator to slow the neutrons from fissioning it creates a sustained chain reaction. This is kept at a roughly 1:1 ration of neutrons created to neutrons consumed per fission event via the control rods which absorb neutrons.

No fire is involved at any point.

Fuuuuuuck, that book was so good. I can't believe they let us read it in Middle School. American Education hasn't been that based since the 90's.

>inb4 born in le wrong generation

well it's not just a dream, now

GENETIC ENGINEERING.
IT WILL MAKE THIS SMILE REAL AND MODS CANT STOP IT

You would'nt even have the internet or cumputer without the German.

Bread

There are large sections of the world where they barely eat any bread. I would say 'no bread' but they buy some bread from the western world now and then. Places like china, india, japan, mongolia, if you took bread away from these places barely anyone would notice.

Take your fertile crescent bias somewhere else please

lets agree on agriculture then
bread + rice both come from plants

This question doesn't make sense if you consider that technology is a giantic pyramid made of infinitesimally small stones.

Which stone is the biggest though? Then it's books, of course

Components in more important technology, so I guess Transistors.

The computer you morons.

Engineers are physics wizards in a way. Scientists just write the books that they use.

smartphones

Agriculture was the impetus for civilization and countless other technologies. Number systems and writing, for example, were developed alongside agriculture in order to keep track of food stock.

Agriculture continues to drive technological progress, as well. The most cutting edge genetic research surrounds food crops and how to make them better.

user is probably right though.

Microscopic Silicon Transistors.

Just one problem with that bucko. The thing you're referring is only that you can SEE yourself in the past. You can't go back from where you came from and still see yourself because you've effectively not moved.

Who are you quoting?

>file name
>not SlaveMasterChecksHisStock.jpg

>electricity and its delivery
So, AC Transformers?

Based Tesla, Accelerator of humanity.

I always thought nuclear power plants worked by exploding lots of nuclear bombs in the plant.

Or his car, or space travel, or airplanes, or funny Nazi memes, or aspirin...

Agriculture.
You can live without turbines, a piston engine would do.
But to live without food is harder.

Alternating current, transistors.

Wrong. The speed is what matters. If two points in space are tangable, then the observable change and time displacement in a third point has no correlation.

If a feather moves from one side of my room to another without any observable travel. My observation of its change does not limit its passage through time. That has zero correlation.

traveling through an entangled point in space =/= time travel. Observed change in time doesn't come into it.

/thread

Flesh pods when?

There are at least 1.3 billion people in India who are not aware of this invention.

edible toecheese

Fire. Burning stuff is what we do. Be it fossil fuels or forests.

>Alternating current
get out of here tesla

That can't be. Isn't it you'd see yourself leaving when you returned?

The loo.