Most underrated technology

[Scott Sonnon]

I realize that this may seem like an unusual post, but I was asked to take a comment poll on the most underrated technology.

I replied, "dental floss."

We'd be interested in your submissions.

[Coach Wilson]

Compounded Interest

[Paul Keith]

toilet paper :lol:

Velcro

[jzeiba]

visualization

[imported_siameeser]

Scoopable kitty litter...(eight indoor housecats will make you a believer!) :lol:

[maxmoon]

brain wave entrainment!

max

[Connie Brown]

the 'talking leaf' - hand writing

[Dan Chomycia]

It is either the Magic 8 Ball or a hinge.
I think I swinging closer to the hinge though. :D

[glittalogik]

other than clubbells, you mean? :lol:


hmmmm...tougher than I thought, but I'm gonna go with human-powered vehicles.

[Daniel M.]

hmmm...

Those bead curtains for doors - in hot climates they use them as screens because bugs won't fly through them. (And you thought they were just for making the basement rec-room even hipper...)

D.

[Coach Tran]

Condoms?

[el chief]

I read once that Air Conditioning has increased Productivity in the work place immensely.

[Chuck Kechter]

I'm thinking language. The manipulation of symbols.

While the word is never the thing, without the "word" what else could have been invented?

While communication is "needed," language is a learned system that expands and expounds upon "reality," stretching it's limits, giving birth to "formal" imagination.

[Randell Waddell]

The written word - reading, writing, the ability to transfer precise/concise knowledge over vast distances and time, and the effect that the printing press had on politics and sharing of acquired knowledge, always has me in awe.

Cheers
Randell. :D

[Jay76]

Don't take this the wrong way, but Sonnons training methods. I love them, but a lot of people don't get it....I am sure you know what I mean...People are very brain washed already.

[rbibbs]

Plumbing. No 'pizzaz', but when Americans talk about their standard of living, the sanitation enabled by plumbing is what makes it possible.
Close second, refrigeration. With our population and its distribution, the food chain would be unsustainable without it.

[Connie Brown]

The written word - reading, writing, the ability to transfer precise/concise knowledge over vast distances and time,
You said mine even better!

I should add - the 'talking leaf' reference was from Sequoia, who invented a writing system for the native American Cherokee (oral) language. He thought it was amazing that the white man could write things on paper (the leaf, or manipulation of symbols) and that others could get the message. And I say with the hands because we can do it before and after the printing press and now, digital cameras and keyboards.

[Ryan Murdock]

I'd have to say wine (or winemaking). I think, as an anthropologist, that it's accurate to say that the great god Bacchus bestowed civilization (or at least Western civilization). Wine preceded civilization in all of the cultures that we look back to as the roots of our culture (with all due respect to RMAX members with other roots, of course).

Thomas Mann said it best. I give you, from the Magic Mountain:

[...] the grape, wine, the gift of the gods to man, as we are told of old time. A God invented it, and with its invention civilization began.

[Cody Fielding]

Human's ability to move energy.

[turtle]

I would have to say Free Will, if you can classifiy that as a technology. If we as people can learn to control our moment to moment decisions, then that would be one of the greatest advancements to mankind

[THEFORMERONE]

I have to agree with Codyx, yet broaden it, and offer Humans as the most underrated technology.

-Jason B.

[Coach Gostnell]

The BICYCLE! Absolutely the most efficient mechanism for moving humans from one place to another - and fun too!

[Scotty D.]

As far as the history of technology goes, I would put my vote to those things which allow for the storage of seeds, i.e. clay jars and cellars.

In regards to something that is more modern and underated, I would propose "Darkness Technology", as presented by Mantak Chia. Check out the 'Darkness Technology Manual' at:
http://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/index.html

[Arluk]

Along the same lines as a dark room, the sensory isolation float chamber, invented by Dr. John C. Lilly.

[Aaron Mcgrath]

Sorry Tribe I double posted...just ignore this.


I'm with Jean,

The bike is where it's at. Imagine a world where people rely on bikes instead of cars. We could turn all the roads into park lands and grow food.

[Aaron Mcgrath]

I'm with Jean,

The bike is where it's at. Imagine a world where people rely on bikes instead of cars. We could turn all the roads into park lands and grow food.

Max what is brain wave entrainment?

Aaron

[Coach Gostnell]

Aaron, You Da Man!

It's a little-known historical fact that, in the US at least women took to the bicycle even more than men, bloomers were practically invented for the pastime, (which as we are all well aware, led to women wearing PANTS! and the downfall of civilization as we knew it :twisted: ). All that freedom to travel led to even more craving for independence and the Suffragette movement got a huge boost.

[maxmoon]

glad you mentioned the bike!

i have been using a bike for the last fore years for all my transportation needs 8) i just love it! and i seem to have some strong feelings towards cars! i cant seem to except the fact that there is so many of them now and they all stink :shock: if money was not the force it is now maybe our cars would be much more sophisticated and not stink up every thing! not to mention the fact that our planet is being raped for our so called gift of the stinky machine that makes our lives so much better :cry:

i will also say in my own opinion todays cars are by far the worlds most over rated technology.

max