Great Ideas

[prillalar]

One of my co-workers asked us all to send him a list of what we considered to be great ideas of recent times. (He was fuzzy on recent but sort of 20th-, 21st-century-ish, I figure.) Here's my list:

• Google
• TV shows on DVD
• the Internet
• the iMac
• water-process decaffeination
• LEGO
• Chicken wings
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
• Dogme 95
• rum and Coke
• the microwave oven
• Dungeons and Dragons
• the EEC (which I always wish Canada could join)
• Monty Python

Anything to add?

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Post-it notes
velcro sneaker fasteners
Cable tv
cell phones
electric cars
vacuum-sealed, pop-top, single-serving meals
wireless networking

[prillalar]

velcro sneaker fasteners

At my highschool, we called those "drunk shoes". *g*

[izzybeth.livejournal.com]

- weekly recycling pickup
- the electric guitar
- the electric acoustic guitar
- FM radio
- Douglas Adams
- the check card
- the mass production of Altoids

[prillalar]

- the check card

I don't think we use these in Canada. We're all trained to use debit instead.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Just dropping by to say--I love your list. I feel all warm and fuzzy toward you. If I had anything to add, I think it would probably be the paperback book--a radical 20th century invention (which was all about the glue). And also the walkman.

[prillalar]

Paperback books! You're so right.

*soaking up the warm fuzzies*

ooooooh a list

[(Anonymous)]

Aja made me come. Had to add to your nice list ^_^

I'd add Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. His ideas are some of the most innovative and profound in... well, civilization. If you haven't read his books, I highly recommend them.

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