10 Greatest Tech Inventions of All Time (not ranked)

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10 Greatest Tech Inventions of All Time

1. Writing

2. The wheel and axle

3. Agriculture and the plough

4. The printing press

5. The steam engine

6. Electricity generation and distribution

7. The transistor

8. Vaccination and antibiotics

9. The internet and packet switching

10. The Haber-Bosch process

Why is the smartphone not here?

What was just outside of the list?

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Ranking inventions is an argument disguised as a list, and most versions lean too hard on recent gadgets. A better test is how much would collapse if you removed the thing entirely. By that measure the smartphone matters less than the transistor inside it, and both matter less than writing. Here are ten inventions ranked by how thoroughly the world depends on them, working from the foundations upward.
 

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