In the special “Found!” social media in the lead. Second place for smartphones. Third, the use of lasers both in the medical field and in the recovery of artistic heritage
From the internet to 3D printing, from GPS technology to cars the use of lasers for the recovery of monuments. First 15 years of the third millennium have been loaded with innovations and scientific, technological and medical advances that have improved scientific progress and even the daily lives of billions of people around the world.
Understand what are the discoveries that have concretely revolutionized our lives, Found! supervised panels of 60 experts in the fields of innovation, sociology and applied sciences, as well as 50 international publications related to science and technology.
Among the most innovative fields, technology (78%) ranks first, followed by science (65%) and medicine (58%). The value of innovations lies above all in simplifying the most common daily actions (86%), improving communication between people in different parts of the globe (76%) and allowing the resolution of general problems that were previously unthinkable (72%). ). ), saving time, resources and energy (68%).
As to individual inventions of this third millennium that have really changed the world, the ranking that emerges from the research sites social networks come first (45%), so smartphone (41%), the use of To be both in the medical field and in the recovery of artistic heritage (38%), USB technology (33%) and GPS (29%). In sixth place is the invention of the 3D printer (26%), then the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (23%), hybrid cars (22%), the iPod (19%) and the mapping of the human genome (17%) .
