This week, The Economist Online launched a debate on the question whether the development of computers is the most significant technological advances of the 20th century.
The question is difficult to answer. Especially since technology has become commoditized in all scientific fields and has enabled many advances in different forms. For example, in the development of vaccines, nuclear weapons, elimination of pests of food and also in our everyday lives. All of them involve the use of computers in some part of the process. In my opinion, computers are a form of technology created by man and therefore an extension of our human faculties, of our hands, our brain. Are the result of intelligence and human creativity to solve problems and evolve. And also to destroy.
It is a chicken and egg, or many chickens and eggs, all technological advances influence each other and would be hard to say which is the most significant.
To see the statements and comments, please click here: http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/186
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