technological possibilities = ability to do something via tech (so might be the ability to communicate instantly thru long distances though in general rather than specifically the phone, Internet, etc.)

For me I'll say :

1) The Internet
2) Recorded Music
3) The Bicycle

Much as I hate to admit it, modern transportation (i.e. : cars & planes) are close behind the bike for me. I really enjoyed driving when just before I first got my license & the ability to travel coast to coast (U.S.) in five & a half hours is pretty amazing. Driving that distance really makes you appreciate air travel (just as biking 40 miles makes you appreciate car travel & walking 10 miles makes you appreciate your bike, etc.).

How about youuuuuuuuuu?

The Microwave :D
The Internet
Money is a pretty good invention too... glad i don't have to carry a sack of turnips around to barter with for a bus trip...

:hmm:

Three favorite technologies / innovation?

Internet
robotic exploration of the solar system
B&W photography

- the transistor
- fire
- writing.

:)

Wheel

Fire

Language

Possibilities are allowed?

1. Learning/Teaching (or maybe I should just say communication?)
2. Instantaneous (relatively of course) transport.
3. Intelligent AI

Eternal Life please.

1) my own personal portable teleportation device

2) Eternal Life

3) Terraforming

Immortality with forever young.

The internet

A sound filter to block out any noise I dislike and nobody can see it.

Possibilities are allowed?

I meant possibilities that are already possible but whatever, go crazy, let your imaginations run wild. ;)

The Internet
Fire
Wheel


I meant possibilities that are already possible but whatever, go crazy, let your imaginations run wild.

Maybe we shoudl have different threads to make it simplyer.

Maybe we shoudl have different threads to make it simplyer.
The more the merrier. :)

1) Personal Computers / Transistors
2) Steam engine
3) Writing

1) Writing (what other invention can enable you to share your soul?)

2) The Internet (the most universal means of carrying writing)

3) Telephone (because sometimes writing doesn't cut it)

Humans did not invent fire people. Just like we didn't invent the wheel, it is a natural shape and we stole it.

My favorite inventions are the internet and the condom. Oh and birth control pills.

Just because Nature 'invented' something that people then stole doesn't mean it's not a technological innovation.

Some ancient human groups didn't have the technology of the wheel, while others did.

Some ancient hominid groups didn't use fire, others did. The ones who did became more successful while the ones who didn't were marginalized. [/speculation]

the best
-transistos
-electricity
-math

Just like we didn't invent the wheel, it is a natural shape and we stole it.
Show me a wheel in nature. ;)

Humans did not invent fire people. Just like we didn't invent the wheel, it is a natural shape and we stole it.

My favorite inventions are the internet and the condom. Oh and birth control pills.We may not have invented fire, but we did invent the tinderbox and fire pit.

As Narz points out, the wheel was invented.

Show me a wheel in nature. ;)

My face ;)

Show me a wheel in nature. ;)

I present to you the Bacterial Flagellal Motor (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=mboc4.figgrp.2879), tho' technically it's a chemical motor, not simply a wheel. But it employs the same principle as a wheel: a round disc rotating about an axle :p

Of course, the people who came up with the wheel couldn't have known about this. But they certainly knew about rolling logs.

And rolling boulders... Actually it could be an interesting new thread to ask people to attempt to name any concept/idea which is 100% original, not a combination/alteration of any already existing thing at the time it was invented (or at the time they made it up on the fly).

My face ;)
You mean your head right? Your face is just a circle (oval more likely).

Also wheels are generally not balls either, they're round flat discs, which is something I've never seen in nature (in the macroscopic realm).

Rolling bolder cannot carry anything like a wagon. Rolling logs are not found in nature, because in order to get a log to roll you need to cut if from the stump and trim it's branches. It took a bright caveman to figure that logs can be used to help transport heavy objects. It took another person to get the idea to put a wheel on an axle.

electronics
printing press
assembly line

Rolling logs are not found in nature...

:confused: They're not? I thought they were. You know - dead trees, trees that have been root-rotted lose their branches before being felled by beavers, Trees that have been damaged by fire and then are swept downhill in heavy rains, trees blown over due to heavy rains ( i think they call the tree-falls) - that sort of thing.

In any case, this has gotten pretty off-topic. Thanks to SS-18 ICBM for bringing us back :hatsoff:

present:

Nuclear power
Synthetic insulation
Digital computers


dreaming:

Quantum computers
FTL drives
Artificial Biospheres