Banyak pembaca bersyukur atas internet sebagai kemajuan teknologi. Lee menulis:
I’d probably have to say the Internet in general, because that has essentially inspired most most of the features in modern technology. Plus, I wouldn’t know nearly as much about tech now if I didn’t have access to the Internet.
Jim sangat bersyukur untuk Internet:
The Internet. The information I’ve found and people I’ve met, (including my wife), have been life changing.
Beberapa pembaca membawanya kembali ke dasar-dasar kehidupan elektronik. Suhail menulis:
Integrated Electronics! This is what drives & will drive each & everything in our world..:-)
Guy Dols menggemakan sentimen:
The NAND gate, without the NAND gate there would be no logical processing so no computers, no internet, no phones only lights bulbs and Morse communication.
Sementara Internet / World Wide Web dan penemuan microchip peringkat tinggi, banyak pembaca menyatakan terima kasih untuk fasilitas modern yang paling mendasar. TheFu menulis:
Water purification, by far. A distant 2nd is a hot water heater attached to the shower head.
All other tech falls very far below those two in my book. If you don’t believe me, turn off your water heater for a week and stop assuming water from the tap is clean enough to drink.
Air yang jernih dan mudah didistribusikan tentu saja sesuatu yang kita anggap biasa di negara-negara dunia pertama. Jika Anda tertarik untuk membantu orang-orang di negara berkembang mendapatkan akses ke pasokan air bersih dan aman, kami akan mendesak Anda untuk memeriksa Charity Water (“A” yang diberi peringkat oleh CharityWatch.org) untuk membantu membawa sumur dan sistem pemurnian air kepada mereka di perlu.
