During this week, The Economist Online launched a debate whether the development of computers is the most significant technological advance of the 20th century.
The question is difficult to answer. Specially 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, the elimination food´s pests and also in our everyday communication. All of them involve the use of computers in some part of their processes. In my opinion, computers are a form of technology created by men and therefore an extension of our human faculties, of our hands, of our brains. They are the result of intelligence and human creativity to solve problems and evolve. And also to destroy.
Anyways, all technological advances influence each other and would be hard to say which is the most significant.
To see the statements and comments about this post, please click here: http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/186
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