• Question: What's the one thing you would have loved to have invented?

    Asked by lemonbot to Paul, Mark, Sarah, Lily, Laura on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by everdragon.
    • Photo: Sarah Bardsley

      Sarah Bardsley answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Great question! I would have loved to have invented the internet. It’s changed the world so much. It enables people to communicate and learn. I love the fact that the real inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, invented it to help researchers share data, has not made much money out of it and had no idea how his invention would be used by people and taken up so whole heartedly.

    • Photo: Lily Asquith

      Lily Asquith answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I guess the most important inventions have been of drugs: I can’t imagine how horrible life was before we had painkillers and other medicines.

      Then again, where would be without the lightbulb?

      I would really love to invent a device that disables cars. I think that is the only way we will be able to stop people driving. It wouldn’t work on ambulances, obviously. Or buses.

    • Photo: Laura Maliszewski

      Laura Maliszewski answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Good one!
      Computers I guess. I’m still shocked that computers exist, I have no understanding of how electrons make all this happen!

    • Photo: Paul Roche

      Paul Roche answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      The iPod, or otherwise the Xbox – then my kids would really see the value of science!

    • Photo: Mark Roberts

      Mark Roberts answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Oooooh that’s a good one?

      Can I say dynamite? That way there would be the Roberts prize rather than the Nobel prize.

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