“if you could cause one invention from the last hundred years never to have been made at all, which would it be, and why?”
PZ questions the question — not cricket, in my opinion — but draws some interesting responses.
Leave your comments there. What’ll be? I think 100 years is too short: I’d like to uninvent gasoline as a motor fuel but that predates the cutoff.
<update>I am going with television. A close second is landmines, as a couple of the hosts over at Scienceblogs have chosen. Tells me they get out more than I do, and have a less parochial view of the world than I do.
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