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Re: What is the most benefitial technological advance ever created?

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Originally Posted by Billfred
I'm going to say the Internet.

With the Internet, everything shrank. No longer do I have to wait three days for my friend to receive a note--now three minutes is more like it. And all of a sudden, information is cheap to distribute (at least in relation to paper). Instead of printing a ginormous booklet to hand out, all you have to do is stick it online and pass out a business card with the address. That easy.

The examples go on and on.
Thus that means the silcon chip would be the most important because without it the powerful entity known as the internet would not exist.
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