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I'm not denigrating ANY of the inventions you brought up from the prior era. They're all massive.

You were the one who seemed to be minimized the stuff post-1950 as just "computer stuff" like it's all trivial in comparison. I was just defending them.

I mean you said cell phones were the biggest thing, but that's just an upgrade of the telephone, which was already invented. 

You could drop just about anyone into the 50s, and they'd get by okay. Anything before that, they'd be pretty screwed.

Mandatory seat belts.

I was interested in seeing MRI on the list.  I'm not disputing it, I just would not have thought of it.  It's a much older technique used in chemistry since the 60s pretty widely, but only for samples in small tubes, not whole body parts.  That technique was called "NMR", for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, they changed the name to get rid of the nuclear term, so folks wouldn't confuse it with Xrays I guess or get upset that it was nuclear radiation.

The word "nuclear" just sounds bad, to folks, for whatever reason, like "nuclear family" must be one that is radioactive I guess.

We're all exposed to electromagnetic radiation daily .... sometimes at dangerous levels.

Probably 2004 USC or 2001 Miami.

No OSU in the list? 2002, 2014 and 2024 not good enough?

Seems like an oversight to me.

I've been through all of the American ones plus Heathrow, CDG, and Amsterdam.

I bet few would guess accurately who is Number Two.

I wouldn't have guessed, but it's not surprising. If you look at a map, it's basically right in the middle of a lot of routes between Europe, Africa, China, India, and Southeast Asia. Dubai is a major financial center of the ME. And Dubai has got so much $%&#!@ money that they can build the biggest, ritziest airport they want to in order to attract flyers/airlines to come through. 

So it makes sense, even if I might not have guessed. 

I've been through all of the American ones plus Heathrow, CDG, and Amsterdam.

Same, minus Amsterdam. 

The other question I'd ask everyone here... What is the most notable OMISSION to you on this list... The airport that you'd think would be there, but isn't. 

For me, it's probably Hong Kong... I've flown through there several times and it's always seemed like a major hub, as well as being a big financial center for Asia and just over the [former?] border with Shenzhen, a major industrial city. I wonder if maybe it used to be on this list, but flyers have been routing around it after some of the things China has done to HK over the last few years? 

Runner up for me might be Shanghai... Also a major city (both industrial and financial), probably very much a gateway for westerners to the rest of China and a gateway for Chinese out of China... Looking at pictures of Shanghai from say the 1990s to today I thought it might be on this list.