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PROMPT: Invention of a Lifetime

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Daily writing prompt
The most important invention in your lifetime is…
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If “most important” means having both a broad and profound societal impact, then the answer would have to be the internet. [Though I learned through said internet that Arpanet was already operating before I was born. So, if you consider the internet to be a simple progression of Arpanet, then my answer would be a lie.]

If “most important” means having the greatest benefit to mankind in terms of improved quality of life or lifespan, then it’s probably some medicine. Which one? I have no idea. [Maybe that breakthrough that both won the Nobel and made it much easier and quicker to get the COVID vaccines out (mRNA translation, or whatever it was called.)]

The Internet [Verse in Tetrameter]

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We've reached the place where screams aren't heard.
You'd think they'd build into a din,
but one can't grasp a single word.
It has become silent as sin.

The angry words are shot to black -
that inky void that's unpatrolled,
It's silent, yet all're struck by flak.
Still, no one admits being sold.

But each life 's a product consumed.
They wail away the night and day,
pretending they're not rightly doomed.
Some will say that it's here to stay...

True, but are we?