CBCNA,242 10pm Jan 4 2006
"The Greatest Canadian Invention Series.
Viewers vote on the greatest Canadian invention from a list
of 50 choices, while famous Canadians make a case for their
favorite picks."
JCT: They missed the real "Greatest Canadian Invention."
They had the guys who invented retractable handles on on
beer packs, hockey masks, the game of basketball,
Blackberries, canoes, radio voice transmission, ski-doos,
electron microscope,
15- Standard Time
14- Canadarm
13- Bloody Ceasar
12- Java Programming language
11- Cobalt-60 Cancer bomb
10- Poutine
09- Electric Wheelchair
08- Zipper
07- Robertson screw
06- Pacemaker
05- Wonderbra
04- Five-pin Bowling
03- Lightbulb
02- Telephone
01- Insulin
I have no doubt, I'd bet, that posterity will judge Michael
Linton's invention of the "LETS" Local Employment-Trading
Software (interest-free social e-currency) will be deemed
the world's most important invention.
--
Abolitionist Slave Leader John C."The Banking Systems Engineer" Turmel
for UNILETS interest-free time-based currency in U.N. resolution C6
to Governments in the
http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel 519-753-0645 USENET: can.politics