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The 'top' of the 10 inventions that changed the world

PEDRO SOUSA TAVARES A group of 20 British scientists chose the most technological inventions that changed the way humanity interacts and lives today. Experts from the British Association of Science and the choices range from the barcode to tennis sports Credit card food of 'plastic' - the order is random -, these are the ten most technological inventions that marked the world in the last century. The election was made by a panel of 20 scientists in England, the British Science Association - and served to mark a week dedicated to science and engineering. The list is debatable, as all others. And the criteria are not based necessarily on the benefits that these inventions have brought to humanity. The credit card is because it facilitated the movement of capital, particularly by citizens abroad, but also not forget that contributed to the over in which people live today. Of food or plastic is worth talking about ... But there is no doubt that these technologies and products hav