What’s more important: electricity or the internet?

Topic #270:

With the passing of Steve Jobs yesterday, the web is filled with remembrances of a pioneer and industry legend. It’s a sad day indeed. But it’s also a good day to look back and consider the history of innovation. And how all the inventions and creations of the last 100 years have impacted us.

As a specific topic to write about: How would you compare the importance of electricity with the invention of the internet? or the cell phone? Can this kind of comparison be made? If you had to lose one of these inventions, which would you keep? And why?

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  1. everyone seem to be thinking almost alike here, come to think about it, if we could think out of the box for a minute. our thoughts can generate an idea for a new invention. has any thought about a world with an alternative to electricity to empower the a

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  2. This is a strange question… How would we have the internet without electricity? I agree that the endless access to knowledge is vastly important, but we wouldn’t have it without something to power up our devices…

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