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<h1 style="text-align: center;">the greatest technological achievements</h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">past - present - future</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;Inspired by a letter from Mark Twain to Walt Whitman, where Twain outlined what he thought were the technological and societal achievements of that period(19th century)</li>
<li>] lets take a look back at the greatest acheivements of the centuries following(20th) and the&nbsp;current centuries(21st) with the ..</li>
<li>] GOAL of creating a 'summary list' - of all of the greatest achievments, during a specific period</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li>] Then lets see if we can use that list to answer some questions about our technological future.</li>
<li>] Personally, I believe that are we going to see a phenomonal growth in both the acceleration, adoption and refinement of both&nbsp;technological products and services going forward?</li>
<li>] what will be the great inventions going forward?</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/article?id=3022" target="_blank">letter from Mark Twain -: to:&nbsp;Walt Whitman</a>&nbsp;re: greates acheivements of the 19th</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;Mark points out the greatest inventions of the 19th century, ] as well as advances in society and his predictions for the future</li>
<li>?+ ] telephone, automobile</li>
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<li><strong>] great&nbsp;achievements of the 20th century</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] technological achievements / developments</strong> is summed up by <a href="http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=2984" target="_blank">http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=2984</a>&nbsp;timeline - by category(20) -</li>
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<li>] airplane, automobile, agricultural, air conditioning, computers, electrification, electronics, health, hp materials, highways, household materials, imaging, internet, laser &amp; fiber optics, nuclear, petroleum, radio &amp; tv, spacecraft, telephones, water supply</li>
<li>] we could combine these categories</li>
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<li>] transportation* (airplane, automobile, petrol+petro chem*, highways&nbsp;),</li>
<li>] agriculture, ] air conditioning</li>
<li>] computers(internet, telephones, ),</li>
<li>] electrification(electronics),</li>
<li>] health</li>
<li>] materials (hh materials),&nbsp;</li>
<li>] imaging</li>
<li>] laser and fiber optics</li>
<li>] nuclear</li>
<li>] radio &amp; tv,</li>
<li>] space</li>
<li>] water supply,</li>
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<li><strong>] societal changes</strong></li>
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<li>] globalization,</li>
<li>] berlin wall</li>
<li>] end cold war</li>
<li>] family farming dies, food inc</li>
<li>] obesity</li>
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<li><strong>] top 20 -</strong><ol>
<li>]&nbsp;technological - ?automobile, auto assembly line/mass production, computer, mobile phone(1973),&nbsp;computer-home(1984),</li>
<li>] societal -</li>
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<li><strong>] great&nbsp;achievements of the 21st century - tech</strong></li>
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<li>] smartphone -</li>
<li>] tablet -</li>
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<li><strong>] great&nbsp;achievements of the 21st century - society</strong><ol>
<li>]&nbsp;arab spring&nbsp;-</li>
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<li><strong>]&nbsp;zoom&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] location &lt;- nation&nbsp;&lt;- planet &lt;- universe &lt;- stars</li>
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<li><strong>] events - future tech </strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="/view/article?id=2186" target="_blank">ces2014</a>&nbsp;-</li>
<li>] gilmor-gang - review - YE&nbsp;2013 - looking @ whats ahead in tech</li>
<li>] article 3306&nbsp;- <a href="http://brikis98.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-think.html" target="_blank">dont learn to code, learn to think</a> - with some thoughts on future technology</li>
<li>] predictions.txt - dustin founder @ svbtle&nbsp;</li>
<li>] ai,</li>
<li>] robotics, automation</li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] globe - <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/top-1000/rankings-by-industry/article12870820/" target="_blank">ranking canadas top companies by industry</a></li>
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<li>+]&nbsp;banks (&nbsp;banking ing aka financial services ? products) , &nbsp;x] transportation ] mining (-&gt;materials) ] tech &amp; wireless ] ] retailers, ] oil+gas -&gt;petrol ] fed crown corp ] prov crown corp ] investment dealers ] management companies ] life insurance ] gas + electric ] chemicals -&gt;materials ] agriculture ] gold+diamonds(-&gt;materials)&nbsp;] automovitve ] media</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/top-1000/top-1000/article12829649/" target="_blank">canadian industry - the&nbsp;most profitable</a> public companies</li>
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<li>] banks</li>
<li>] oil</li>
<li>] transportation</li>
<li>] telephone</li>
<li>] automotive</li>
<li>] chemicals -&gt;materials</li>
<li>] other - (thomson reuters)</li>
<li>] life insurance</li>
<li>] management companies</li>
<li>] real estate developers</li>
<li>] pipelines</li>
<li>] mining</li>
<li>] precious metals</li>
<li>] telephone utilities</li>
<li>] broadcasting</li>
<li>] food production</li>
<li>] retailers</li>
<li>] gas &amp; electric companies</li>
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<li>] canadian industries</li>
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<li>] <a href="http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ccc-rec.nsf/eng/home" target="_blank">list industries by industry canada</a>&nbsp;</li>
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