While there are many new products now days lets be honest, none of them are huge advancements when you compare it to the stuff below.
Improvements in Transportation
- Airlines: Airplanes are now available to public making transportation extremely fast and efficient.
- High Speed Trains: Trains are faster than ever allowing quick and easy transportation of goods and people within an area.
- Space Travel: Man walked on the moon, can't get much cooler than that.
Improvements in War
- New Guns: War was transformed forever with tanks and rapid fire guns, strategies had to be greatly changed. The destruction of WWI and WWII leave all other wars in the dust.
- Air Attacks: Bombs started being dropped from the sky, now people need to be protected from air raids not just attacks from the ground.
- Nuclear Weapons: One of the greatest threats ever created is the Atomic Bomb from WWII, changed the way war is fought forever.
- Radio: People no longer need to rely on newspapers to get the news and entertainment, easily accessed.
- Television: Honestly, we don't think about it much but it's pretty amazing how we can watch something going on millions of miles away so easily.
- Computers: We don't need nerds now days to calculate everything, just plug it into the computer. (But we still have those nerds around....)
- Internet: Anybody anywhere can put anything on the internet for everybody to see. (Is that a good thing?)
Improvements in Society
- Medical Inventions: Cures for diseases, medication, etc. People live a lot better now.
- Civil Rights: Lets not forget that the 20th century was when America started to really recognize everyone as equal human beings.
While it is true that there a plenty inventions made before and after the 20th century, those time periods just don't compare in technological advancements. I don't know what happened there but for some reason people progressed a lot. Maybe it was in the water....
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