x86 processors! Must be in top 10 as they are almost everywhere!
They have been around just over 20 years and look at the changes they made to our everyday life.

Where is the internet? How would all of this data be shared without our beloved web?

Would think penicillin would be first.. Considering it was one of the largest advancements in medicine at the time.. It saved countless lives in world war 2.

How is the DNA Double Helix an invention?? It's a discovery, but not really an invention

Microchips.

Also agree with the electric telegraph, without which we would not have had phone networks, without which we would not have had the bringer or por-, erm, the internet.

The microprocessor. There are others I would pick too. Weird list if you ask me.

1. AC electricity
2. Electromagnet

Microprocessor? Your not thinking hard enough. The transistor should be number one on that list. Transistors are used in every piece of modern electronic device. Also to add to the list where is sonar, radar, the internet, the light bulb, the radio, etc. That list they provided sucks.

The light bulb isn't on there?

As others have stated, the microprocessor? At least in the top 10, somewhere.

The subsequent technologies that were spawned from from the microprocessor and medical & scientific discoveries/breakthroughs are countless. All thanks to the microprocessor.

Heh learning to utilize fossil fuels is the biggest invention ever. Also don't forget nuclear fission, electronics, the light bulb, world wide web etc...

The guy who made the lists for voting didn't know crap... why da hell are the top 3 places not even inventions, but scientific discoverys? or are you people gona tell me a guy in a cave woke up one morning and invented fire... x-ray was discovered with the story of the fotographic sheet, Penicillin was discovered by accident also with contaminated test plates. And i dont know about the doble helix, but id say the other dudes found that out while tripin with some Lysergic Acid Diethylamide... so to me that list only starts at number 4... and its not that much of a number 4 ether but thats another story...

The Internet. That should be at or near the top, and the Double Helix is not an invention!

zipper

Steam engine by Valve? Hell yes.

Plastics?

#1 Printing Press
#2 Electricity
#3 Steam Engine
#4 Antiseptics/Pasteurization
#5 Penicillin
#6 Vaccination
#7 Transistor
#8 Nuclear Fission/Fusion
#9 Compass
#10 Astrolabe

Are they talking about an x-ray generator or radiation detection???
These are two different inventions... And have different applications...

Are they talking about an x-ray generator or radiation detection???
These are two different inventions... And have different applications...

Sliced Bread is nowhere to be found.

Sorry guys - I couldn't resist....
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Why iPod isn't number #1 ? ))
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It must be greatest invention of the past 2000 years surely?!

Dynamite should be up there as well without it there would be no railroad (or not as big) and no Suez or panama canals. Almost every kind of mining quarrying uses it. Construction and transportation in general would not have gotten where it is today without it.

Simply, the world would be completely different had it not been invented.

Dynamite should be up there as well without it there would be no railroad (or not as big) and no Suez or panama canals. Almost every kind of mining quarrying uses it. Construction and transportation in general would not have gotten where it is today without it.

Simply, the world would be completely different had it not been invented.

1. Agriculture

Well, they are asking inventions that had an impact on society: the top ten lacks most of them (and includes discoveries with some kind of distortion: DNA "machine"). I agree this list misses Computers. But History already has classified this inventions: they force a "revolution". So the first items in this list should be the ones that drove revolutions: agriculture, iron... Computers / internet are driving the next revolution, so it should be there.

Clearly #1 should be Fake Breasts

Soiled

I agree with Jacob's list over the official list. I was going to suggest several items he listed, including vaccination and the transistor.
But in terms of impact on daily life, the car - or Model T if you prefer to be specific - has, I beleive, the number one impact on life, followed by the TV (regretably?) that consumes so many hours per week of the average person and is his conduit for news, entertainment, and all too often cultural values.
The airplane also has had a major impact and I would replace the Apollo 10 capsule with, arguably, its predicessor.
Birth control pills, and other methods of contraception, have also had major impact, not only in terms of the sexual activities of those practicing it, but all the lives not on the Earth now because of it.

Where are Boob Jobs rated on this list

Soiled

let's not forget the Hubble Space Telescope or just the telescope.