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Asked by odstbuck224 to Carla, Madgie, Nick, Vicky, Werner on 12 Nov 2013.
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Werner Muller answered on 12 Nov 2013:
may be for me this was the fax machine. I still remember when we received a fax in our institute send from the USA to Germany. It was almost instant. Usually we had to wait 1 to 2 days to receive a letter. Now we have internet of course.
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Vicky Forster answered on 12 Nov 2013:
I would have to say, the internet. I’m (just about) old enough to remember when the internet didn’t exist. Next we had dial-up internet, which is when you used your phone line for accessing the internet, and nobody could use the phone whilst you were on it! It was really slow, and even loading a picture could take quite a lot of minutes. The internet has completely revolutionised the way that research science works too – we can now email each other, download research papers and experimental protocols and even recieve results by email. My job would be so much harder without the internet.
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Marlene Lorgen answered on 12 Nov 2013:
SCUBA gear! I love going scuba diving to see the world beneath the waves and this is made pretty easy by the invention of self contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA).
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Nick Groves-Kirkby answered on 13 Nov 2013:
The Internet is pretty wonderful. I struggle to remember how we did things in the old days!
But I’m going to say vaccination. The ability to keep mankind (largely) free from disease has just made such a huge to the way we live. If only we could do more!
The simple toilet also deserves a mention. It’s possibly the biggest advance in public health ever!
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