Techie Breakthroughs

[Lilith]

This is CNN's top 25
TOP TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGHS
1) Wireless world
2) Defense technology
3) Alternative fuel vehicles
4) Biotechnology
5) Computers
6) Lasers
7) Genomics
8) Global finance
9) Processors
10) Digital storage
11) Space
12) Fiber optics
13) Satellite TV & radio
14) DNA testing
15) Video games
16) Biometrics
17) Energy and water savers
18) Scanning tunneling microscopes
19) Batteries
20) E-baggage
21) Remote controls
22) Animal cloning
23) Manufacturing technology
24) The big picture
25) Weather technology


Would you change/add/delete anything???

[osuche]

WTF is e-Baggage? And can I have some please? Mine will barely fit into the overhead bin!

[Lilith]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/04/01/cnn25.top.technology/index.html

Here's the article

[cowgirltease]

Oh! Now I don't feel so dumb! I didn't know either Osuche. I thought it had to do with airlines also. :p

[Coaster]

I had a girl once with lots of e-baggage! :D

[Oldfart]

And these 25 wonderful things help the bottom 2 1/2billion of us in no direct way

shape or form.

A grain that'll grow in sand or gravel without needing water would blow the lot away.

Oh God! I'm sounding like a greenie.

[fredchabotnick]

And these 25 wonderful things help the bottom 2 1/2billion of us in no direct way

shape or form.

A grain that'll grow in sand or gravel without needing water would blow the lot away.

Oh God! I'm sounding like a greenie.

That would be useful. Or how about potable water? (http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2004/Nov/15-500535.html) .
Personally, I'd add ATMs to the list. But that's just because I'm a lazy American.

[wyndhy]

seems that most of these couldn't have come so far without the help of the other 24.

but since they didn't single this one out, i'll add medical tech advances which basically boils down to improved materials/tools/medicines: endoscpoic/less invasive surgeries, plastic hearts and pace makers, prosthetics, the discovery of stem cells and their amazing capabilities, incubators. the list goes on...