Has email replaced the print press as the greatest invention?

I wouldn't say that e-mail is the greatest invention, but it's ticked a fair share of companies off from phone companies to the post office. Everyone's losing money, why spend money to call long distance if you can just send an e-mail, why buy a pack of stamps when you can just get everyone's e-mail addresses. They've tried to come up with ways to make their money back, charging for e-mail, but it's never worked.So I'd say maybe e-mail is one of the biggest challenges for many companies in the 20th century... how do they make back the money that they lost because of it?

Or can they? I'm not sure what I think the greatest invention is... there's so much to choose from. Computers, internet, cars, planes, medical advances.

All are greatest in different ways.

The internet of course, the foundation that all computers use to connect to eachother, to be able to share any amount of data, across any amount of distance, instantly. Email's just one of the many wonders the net has produced.

E-mail isn't really an invention. It's a technological innovation on a previously established innovation, that of written personal mail. Much like the computer is a technological innovation on the word processor, which is a technological innovation on the typewriter, which can be seen as a personal innovation on the printing press.Is it a great innovation?

Sure, though it isn't without its issues. However, is it a great invention? No, because invention.

I don't think that email qualifies as an invention, great or small. It would be more appropriate to compare the print press with the internet concept and infrastructure as a whole. In that case, it is certainly comparable to print press - in greatness and importance - to my mind, it is indeed the single most important practical invention of the 20th Century.It's full impact and significance can not yet be properly estimated - we are only just beginning to explore the Information Universe, and have yet to reach and develop its full potential.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.