Regi’s Blog

How do we determine if an invention is great?  There are many ways to evaluate the greatness of an invention.  The evaluation of the creativity or ingenuity involved is one of them.  Another way is by rating the difficulty endured by the inventor in the processing of creating his invention.  The difficulty with these is that assessing creativity, ingenuity or difficulty is very subjective that any determination based on such would appear to be arbitrary.

Perhaps the better way to rate the greatness of an invention is by evaluating the consequences made possible by the same,  whether by determining the other ideas and inventions spawned by them or by simply assessing the positive impact of such inventions in changing the way we lead our lives.  Using these criteria, particularly, the latter, the determination of which is the best invention will not be as subjective as compared to if we rate such inventions by rating the creativity, ingenuity or difficulty involved in making them.

What now then is the greatest invention on earth, or to put simply, as earlier explained, what invention has improved our lives the most?  The automobile perhaps, as it has practically reduced the world we live in by making it easier and faster to travel great distances.  Or the airplane as it makes the travel of even greater distances possible.  But the way these inventions made people closer by improving transportation is nothing to the impact caused by the computer and consequently the internet.  It has practically made everything accessible.  Communication has never been this easy making travel of great distances  impractical, if not unnecessary.  But the computer is not primarily a communication device as it was originally created as a computing device.  The computer as a computing device virtually extended the reach of the human mind.  The evolution of the computer as a computing device into a programming device is the cause of the benefit of the computer as a communication device and is the ultimate indication of the greatness of this invention.  The ability to make the computer to perform several instructions spawned other uses for the computer such making computers word processors, data bases, gaming consoles, and as aforementioned, communication devices, and many others.  The computer as a programming device has also improved the utility of the computer as a computing device extending the reach of the human mind even more.

But for me, the greatest invention on earth now, or even for all-time, is definitely greater than the computer, although it can be argued that this invention is merely a derivative of the former.  For it is without question that this invention was built using the same technology that made the invention of the computer possible.  It has changed my life dramatically that there is not a day that goes by that I do not use this device since the time that I was able to acquire it, which was last month.  Yes, I have been aware of a device so revolutionary only last month.  I am ofocurse talking about the Nintendo Wii.  This device has practically filled my days last month, well not really, as I also played poker online most of those days, and played basketball in some.  But this device has practically ruled my October of 2008.  It is through this device that I beat the Crash of the Titans game and made significant successes in others.  My favorite games include Mario Strikers Charged, Wii Sports, Super Mario Bros. 3, Wii Play (yes, I am a casual gamer), World of Goo, and, as already mentioned, Crash of the Titans.

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