Jophiel wrote:
Frakkor wrote:
line driven automated assembly
That was one of Flea's. I didn't use it but she was quite adamant about it.
I'm not sure I remember what my five were, but as I recall it was
-line assembly, b/c it represented a radical departure from any manufacturing process to-date, and the concept of technology being a way to make things cheaper, faster and better has led from this point, IMHO, to things like the World Wide Web and current cybertechnology
-The Women's Suffrage Movement, because it changed a paradigm about who and what women were, leading them to question their place in society and the home. (I think I even brought up Prozac Nation).
-Civil Rights Movement, because to this day, it made public the unequality of a seemingly equal system, and the aftershocks with different races persist to this day,
-The First World War, because it made the concept of a global war real and it's still the thing that worries us most
-The Vietnam War, because for the first time, we questioned our government as a nation and truly began to express dissidence and doubt.
I think 9/11 could be one, but still too soon to tell.