Essay about the most important invention of the last 100 years. 1 of 2.

It is an essay similar to those asked in CAE test. I am writting about what I think It is the best invention of the last 100 years. The proposal in a magazine article is TV, but I don´t agree and I make a counter-proposal. It is supposed to be written in formal language.


I know that there is a recent article stating that TV has been is the most important invention in the last 100 years. I agree that TV has contributed to the globalization of this world. Every important moment has been broadcasted while it was happening. We stared at the rectangular screen while images coming from different international conflicts came into our living rooms. However I have to disagree: TV has not been the most important invention of the last century.

Let us think for a moment about the Internet. The internet has helped make our blue planet an even more global planet than TV did.
The world wide web has allowed all of us to succeed in building the information that will be sent to other people as well as and to have access to information that other normal people, like us, could share in on the internet. Everyone in developing and developed countries could can receive information unfiltered by big, powerful, information lobbies. Therefore we can be sure that internet has changed the way we communicate.

Not so long time ago, most company commincations were made by fax. After the mass arrival of the internet, faxes have been relegated to a back stove in our offices, being the front stoves (not a usable expression) occupied by e-mail communication.

If we look at personal communications the change has been even more important. Not only has e-mail has shifted ordinary mail to a residual and symbolic quantity, but also the way how we communicate with our friends has also changed. In the past, it was by phone, then moved to mobile phones, then to short text messages later and currently to whatsapp and other messaging aplications running on internet networking technology (This is a very long run-on sentence. It is better to shorten it into two sentences). But that is not all. Think for a moment about all the different possibilities that currently exist to communicate with friends and acquaintances, blogs, twitter, facebook and communication in real time with voice and video as skype.

It will continue in next notebook entry.