Twitter is one of the greatest inventions ever made by man.
Anything and everything in just 140 characters. As simple as that. Apparently,
when people have less space to express, they tend to be intelligent with their
words. Restoring the previous session in my Firefox brought me to my Twitter
homepage and a twitter trend made sure I didn’t switch the tab. It was #greatestinvention which had got my thoughts racing. What could be the greatest invention made by human?
Is it the wheel?
It changed the entire life of human beings. It gave the actual meaning to
movement and has made the world smaller and smaller. Or is it the printing press? It was one of the first
media of communication. It changed the ways how information was collected,
stored, retrieved and distributed. Could it be the telephone? The idea of talking to a person sitting thousands of miles
away from you was incredible. While the wheel made travelling possible, it
reduced the necessity to travel. Okay, if not wheel, then what about automobile. Invented after a long time
of the invention of wheel, it improved transportation and made movement swift
and hassle-free. Television also
stands a strong chance. It improved upon the radio and allowed better
ways of transmission of news and other important media. It also became an excellent
source of entertainment. Then I wondered about Computers. Since its invention in 1837 by Charles Babbage, the
computer has changed billions of life. It changed the way we work. From a collection
of vacuum tubes covering two rooms to a device which fits in your pocket, the
computers have evolved exponentially. And the invention of Internet has only added to the value of computers. Internet was one
of the revolutions which converted the globe into a village by fostering the
share of information.
The list goes on and on. Steam engine, airplane, LASER, DNA,
several vaccines etc. etc. A quick search on Google with the keywords “the
greatest invention ever is *” returns thousands of results ranging from sex to
space travel. Some consider the remote control the greatest whereas some think
the same for seedless watermelon.
Suddenly something struck me. The greatest invention ever
made by man has to be… GOD!! Yes, God. None of the above mentioned inventions
could control the minds of millions and millions of people making them conform
to one ideal. None of them. There are and have been thousands of Gods. The Hindus alone
worship 36 crores of them. A word defined by the brilliant minds of a few
humans in the ancient times, God has touched the life of everyone on this
planet Earth in one way or the other. Along with God, came Religion, the byproduct of God. It is the
best tool to control a mass of people. It has enabled a bunch of people to control
the entire human race by injecting fear and religious madness in their minds. It
is the only thing which can make people wonder not only about their present,
but also their previous and future births. What other invention can make people
fight among themselves or even give up their own life? What else other than God can make
people accept everything wrong that happened to them?
Inventions were made and forgotten, but God is immortal, the greatest of them all. How can any invention ever stand up to God?
