What do you think the most important technology on the planet is

Probably stuff like the lhc and Hubble

>>56908065
Your question is too broad to have a real answer. I can say domestication of animals, for example.

green energy

Robots with pussies.

>>56908065
The Haber-Bosch process. Without it we would only have enough food for maybe 2 billion people.

>>56908227
And the world would be a much better place.

Microprocessors.

Condoms.

Probably the transistor.

>>56908246
Depends. It also gave us the means to produce industrial quantities of explosives.

You'd have a lot short and vicious wars over land followed by extermination of the natives (you).

It is without a doubt the Internet

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>>56908314
The dream of every totalitarian dictator of the past.

People voluntarily retreating into solitary confinement, they have to pay for it and when they're outside of it to work for the money they get withdrawl symptoms.

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>>56908361
>of the past

>>56908065
Your mom's vagina bones. Dem piece of machinery

>>56908065
Contraception.

>>56908065
food

>>56908065
Steam engine.

>>56908065
Abortion medicine

>>56908227
Never had heard of it. Very interesting.

Quoting Wikipedia:
>Nearly 80% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber-Bosch process.

Holy crap.

>>56908065
>Semens
HAHHAHAHAHHA funding German cucks bahaha

>>56908065
Power generation. No power plants, no electricity to power everything else.

>>56908568
This. Most important current tech? Fission reactors. Most important future tech? Fusion reactors.

>>56908065
Dampfturbine-Montage technology, obviously.

>>56908599
>Fission
We're still burning coal and natural gas for most of our power

Most important modern tech is the steam turbine. No matter what exotic fuel is used, it'll just be used to boil water to spin some turbine

>>56908653
>>56908599

You could kind of keep going with this train of thought and argue that, e.g. the Linz-Donauwitz process (oxygen steelmaking) is important because it allows for the mass-production of steel in the first place...

>>56908599
>>56908653
We need Thorium. It's much safer than uranium, more abundant on Earth and can't be weaponised.

>>56908730

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>>56908730
Agreed
Until we get fusion to work, that is.

>>56908065
Agriculture

>a discussion about technology
>in /g/ - Technology
Someone cap this thread

>>56908185
shut up you fucking cunt you know what OP means

>>56908065
electricity and its delivery

>>56908065
gnu/linux

desalination

Fire

Thanks Prometheus.

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>>56909144
>dubs
instant win
Thanks, Lori.

>>56909170
it's like the japanese porn version but they thought the whole pepe was too obscene

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>>56908065

>>56908065
nuclear technology is some of the most impotent technology we have developed so far.

The new Apple iPhone 7

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>>56909471
see webm related

>>56908065
Lasers
Transistor

>>56908810
this, without agriculture we would have no transistors, power plants and steam engines

if you know some history (most of you don't since you're American), the rise of agricultural technology started the development of cities which started the development of civilization

>>56909744
how long until mainstream vertical farms in the west? the current design is inefficient in delivering light, wasteful with water, and prone to uncontrollable infestation. tower farming in controlled environments would mitigate these factors yet we continue to neglect investing in these here

graviton generators

>>56909744
By this logic, the most important piece of technology is fire, or stone tools to fight off predators.

sewing is one that is overlooked. people need clothes and it's actually a huge industry/process and not just a needle and thread

>>56910651
see the discussion about haber-bosch above, food is much more necessary for living thanclothes

>>56908379
Why isn't he jogging?

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>>56908065
>What do you think the most important technology on the planet is
Soap

>>56908065
the wheel

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>>56908065
The female vagina.

Plumming

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>>56910867
>Plumming

>>56908065
the korean time machine

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>>56908811

you had to make it weird, be cool, just

>>56908065
Agri tech (harvesters, etc)... plus chemical engineering that makes fertilizer.

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>>56910992

>>56908065
Electricity hands down.

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>>56911111
Smart reply Confirmed

Goat,

>>56908307
If we're talking "technology" technology, then this.

>>56909156
If we're talking "technology" technology, then this.

>>56908158
If we're talking "wrong" answers, then this

Seriously? The entire scope of human anthropology and you chose an oversized magnifying glass and a mile wide racetrack for glorified leptons? Your answer is objectively wrong and you should neck yourself fast.

>>56910793
Hi, Tyler Durden

>>56908065
Definitely the internet, but the most exciting new technology(s) is probably reusable rocket boosters, or genetic engineering.

>>56910733
no need to hurry one's pace when the subjects are standing still

Microprocessors are practically magic

>>56908246
The extra food is used to produce meat. Without those excess food, meat will be expensive as hell.

>>56911756

Actually your wrong the LHC is expanding our understanding of the universe that is the most important thing humanity can do if it wants to continue to be a civilization.

The internet is just a glorified telephone that we use to spread memes. Its useful but its mostly just a convenient way to rely information

No one invented fire it has limited useful applications in todays world and even in the past plus it is fairly dangerous.

That being said the wheel is probably the most useful technology at least in the context of human history and unlike fire we will continue to use wheels forever even if humanity becomes a type 3 civilization we are still gonna have stuff with wheels on it.

>>56912224
Well to be fair, for it's cost the LHC is kind of shit. Physicists are so cunty though, they need to find this fucking particle or that fucking particle, so they spend billions of (taxpayer) dollars on these things.

Things like Hubble or the new James Webb Space Telescope are pretty dope and important to discovering life outside the planet. Whether or not there's dark matter and dark energy (physicist's way of saying "i don't know what the fuck is going on) is not as important.

>>56912289
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852

A pressing need of the JWST is to determine if the aliens have built a Dyson Sphere or not.

>>56912289
well it's far better than wasting money on some niggers in a shit crusted african village

>>56912224
I've been on this goddamn website so long I can't tell when people are trolling or not anymore. I'm going to reply just in case you're being serious.

The LHC is a fucking SPECK in the vast history of human imagination. Fire was as much an invention of man as it was the inventor of it. Farming, stone tools, the written word, these are all EXCELLENT answers to vie for; to understand the weight they had on human society, impossible standards for continued advancement, unmatched by any invention of the cotton gin, the rotary phone, the pen, in retrospect, mere novelties for mankind's curiosity.

Even the wheel, the most prestigious of human invention, was not discovered by the natives of the Andals, or by the Incas and the Mayans. Even the great residents of Peru did not discover the wheel until the Spaniards had already discovered it for them.

The internet, like all great inventions, did not just "do" and sit put. The internet, like all great inventions, propelled human forethought into an expression of worldwide homogeneity. To collaborate with physicists in Korea to naturists in France. To read the works of Darwin, Luther, and Jesus of Nazareth all within the day; free of any charge beside the provider of your local Starbucks.

A collaboration between the human ally, wit and creativity, to foster true genius beyond just domesticated willingness; but to heed more and more until the world churns like a great machine in a newly renovated factory.

THESE are the great wonders of the world. Fire; to harvest man's passion and wield it in the form of tragedy and comedy, and electricity; that which courses through the veins of modern man, charging his heart into that sense of wonderment and bravery that leads us forward from future to yonder.

So shut the fuck up, nerd. You don't know shit.

>>56912411
Actually, indigenous peoples had the wheel. What they did not have was the axle.

>>56912104
no
t. digital logic enthusiast

>>56912224
>fire has limited useful application
gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8
welding
coal/oil powerplants
etc.
i'm sure you can find a million more reasons

>>56912309
>to determine if the aliens have built a Dyson Sphere or not.
I don't know whether to hope that is the case or not.

On one end it sounds bad ass and gives us hope that one day we will become a space fairing civilization capable of construction mega structures of such scale.

On the other end such an alien civilization could spell our demise if they one day decide we are a threat or nuisance.

Even if it is an abandoned old relic of the past, good luck getting there.

>>56912663
Well, observation could tell us a lot about how, and we can infer when and why from that as well.

But I agree that we are not doing our species a service by advertising our position in the universe. If there is a spacefaring threat, we're in grave danger of it reaching us before we are prepared.

The only hope we have on our side is the speed of light is a constant, and FTL is impossible. In which case me might be ok.

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The drilldo .

>>56912710
The speed of light limitation has only been proven theoretically at this point and perhaps practically through the use of a particle accelerator, I am clueless in that field.

I haven't heard of any attempt to accelerate a vessel in the vacuum of space to test such limitations on a larger scale.

Hopefully it would only be a matter of time until someone achieves a breakthrough and finds some way around such a limitation through some naturally occurring phenomena or freak incident.

Our first sensible step should be to find a way to escape earth's gravity without wasting what precious fuel we have left.

>>56908065
the linux kernel

>>56913008
The speed of light limitation is really solid. If we find magnetic monopoles or something with negative energy density or some shit like that then I'd start to doubt but until then we're pretty shit out of luck.

Not that I'm not hoping.

>>56908361
Yeah except one thing- they don't work or fight.
People who don't work or fight (or produce those that do) are useless in dictatorships.

>>56913038
Even if we found those things, the speed of light thing is so solid that even if you try and use wormholes then you're still travelling faster than light. You still break causality as you arrive at your location before you left.

>>56913111
What about not aiming to break the speed of light itself but figure out instead how to reduce the distance traveled in space?

>>56913154
Same thing. If you went somewhere and back you'd see yourself returning before you left.

>>56908541
Read "The Alchemy of Air," by Thomas Hagar if you've got the time. It's about the Haber and Bosch and how the process came to be, very interesting read.

>>56908065
Timekeeping

>>56913196
The end goal of arriving at a destination quickly would still be achieved though, would it not?

>>56908065
Fire

>>56913196
>>56913250
wait, nvm I think I get what you are saying. That if you travel so fast that time goes backwards you won't travel at all.

God damn this is fucking with my brain.

slavery.

>>56913250
Well no since time travel is impossible
Arriving before you left is basically the same as saying you destroyed the whole universe

>>56913293
This universe is too outdated and acking for a replacement/update anyway

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>>56908065
my computer with a super advanced OS installed on it

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>>56911111

>>56913278
No that's not what I'm saying- I'm saying it's impossible. It's impossible to arrive somewhere before you left, and FTL travel (no matter what kind) will result in this.

>>56913424
So you are telling me only robots will know the joy of traveling light years away in a single lifetime.

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The robotic womb that spawned this guy
>>56913374

>>56908065
I feel like either electrical generation or antibiotics.

Electricity lets us extend the amount of time we can be active during the day and the year with electric lighting and electric heating.

Antibiotics, on the other hand, are the cornerstone of modern medicine. Antibiotics are what separate the first world from Uganda.

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Canned food.

>>56912289
pure science like the type they're doing with the LHC always looks like high-concept, abstract bullshit until some engineers get their hands on it in a couple of years. Give it some time, anon. Good things are on the way.

>>56908246
>150 years plus since the relative overpopulation theorem was disproven. Get your science straight before you post in a technology thread.

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>>56908065
δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ kαὶ τὰν γᾶν kινάσω.

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The inflatable love scorpion.

The wheel, dude.


Try and find something you own that wasn't made using a wheel somewhere in its production. Or transported.

>>56913626
something about this pic makes me really uncomfortable. God damn.

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The disposable cat.

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Armor plated swimwear.

Reddit

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>>56908379
holy hell

>>56908065
fleshlight

the semiconductor

Either fire or agriculture

>>56910836
Why don't you post some anon so we can appreciate it on this 'Technology' board.

The flushable toilet or antibiotics, if you're going by number of lives saved.

My personal choice would be the vibrator, if you're going by quality of life.

>>56913935
flushable toilet and antibiotics would never have been invented without the population density provided by agriculture

almost all technology created could not have been created without sufficient population densities and specification of tasks

agriculture is clearly the most important technology

>>56912224
>fire it has limited useful applications in todays world
I guess you dont need glass, cement, metal, plastic, combustiin engines, cars, airplanes, boats, boilers, power plants, wielding etc. Fire is used when shaping most materials. And you eat raw food every day.

And historically fire improved our diet so our brains could grow. Fire provided safety from predators so people formed communities around it. Fire provided warmth so people could migrate out of Africa.

>>56908293
>>56908247
second

>>56908065
Probably electricity

>>56914101
Without fire no steam engines, gas, oil or nuclear plants. And no plastic windmills. Or metals or copper to guide the electricity.

Everything that is related to food.

>>56908730
>I watched a documentary and I have absolutely no idea if it was factually accurate but I like to pretend I do.

Haber process.

>>56914231
>no nuclear plants
Nuclear plants don't use fire though. Or do you mean that we need fire in order to even create a nuclear plant?

>>56914383
Don't they use it for the ignition?

>>56908065
Fire. You should narrow the scope of your question.

probably arrows and spears

>>56908065
Fire.

Without that we wouldn't be any different than the average chimp.

[spoiler]excluding niggers, they're beyond saving[/spoiler], [spoiler]4000 years and they're still hunter gatherers[/spoiler]

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>>56908065
The transistor is without a doubt one of the most important technical innovations of all time. Not just for the fast switching that made digital logic possible but also for its use in a wide variety of analog applications like amplifiers and active filters.

Imagine if we were still stuck with vacuum tubes instead of transistors. You would have no cell phone or portable computer. It just would not be possible.

Peanut Butter

>>56914703
I think they just put the radioactive elements really close together until there's enough particles zipping around to sustain a chain reaction.

>>56914703
Ignite what? There is no ignition in a nuclear plant.

Fuel rods are fissile. You kick off the reaction with neutrons either that you either put into the system to start it or since the fuel itself will naturally undergo fission at a slow rate use that. When the fuel rods are close to one another with neutron moderator to slow the neutrons from fissioning it creates a sustained chain reaction. This is kept at a roughly 1:1 ration of neutrons created to neutrons consumed per fission event via the control rods which absorb neutrons.

No fire is involved at any point.

>>56910508
Fuuuuuuck, that book was so good. I can't believe they let us read it in Middle School. American Education hasn't been that based since the 90's.

>inb4 born in le wrong generation

>>56908379
well it's not just a dream, now

>>56908548
You would'nt even have the internet or cumputer without the German.

Bread

>>56915645
There are large sections of the world where they barely eat any bread. I would say 'no bread' but they buy some bread from the western world now and then. Places like china, india, japan, mongolia, if you took bread away from these places barely anyone would notice.

Take your fertile crescent bias somewhere else please

>>56915645
>>56915676
lets agree on agriculture then
bread + rice both come from plants

This question doesn't make sense if you consider that technology is a giantic pyramid made of infinitesimally small stones.

Which stone is the biggest though? Then it's books, of course

Components in more important technology, so I guess Transistors.

>>56908065
The computer you morons.

>>56913602
Engineers are physics wizards in a way. Scientists just write the books that they use.

>>56908065
smartphones

>>56910552
>>56909744
>>56913875
>>56913962
>>56915961

Agriculture was the impetus for civilization and countless other technologies. Number systems and writing, for example, were developed alongside agriculture in order to keep track of food stock.

Agriculture continues to drive technological progress, as well. The most cutting edge genetic research surrounds food crops and how to make them better.

>>56908852
Anon is probably right though.

>>56908065
Microscopic Silicon Transistors.

>>56913424
Just one problem with that bucko. The thing you're referring is only that you can SEE yourself in the past. You can't go back from where you came from and still see yourself because you've effectively not moved.

>>56913607
Who are you quoting?

>>56908379
>file name
>not SlaveMasterChecksHisStock.jpg

>>56908967
>electricity and its delivery
So, AC Transformers?

Based Tesla, Accelerator of humanity.

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>>56914842
I always thought nuclear power plants worked by exploding lots of nuclear bombs in the plant.

>>56915349
Or his car, or space travel, or airplanes, or funny Nazi memes, or aspirin...

>>56908065
Agriculture.
You can live without turbines, a piston engine would do.
But to live without food is harder.

>>56908065
Alternating current, transistors.

>>56913111
>>56913196
Wrong. The speed is what matters. If two points in space are tangable, then the observable change and time displacement in a third point has no correlation.

If a feather moves from one side of my room to another without any observable travel. My observation of its change does not limit its passage through time. That has zero correlation.

traveling through an entangled point in space =/= time travel. Observed change in time doesn't come into it.

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>>56913850
Flesh pods when?

>>56910793

There are at least 1.3 billion people in India who are not aware of this invention.

edible toecheese

>>56908065
Fire. Burning stuff is what we do. Be it fossil fuels or forests.

>>56917491
>Alternating current
get out of here tesla

>>56913196
That can't be. Isn't it you'd see yourself leaving when you returned?

>>56908065
The loo.