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70 People Ages 5-75 Answer: What New Technology Is Most Important?

We asked people of all ages what's the most important piece of technology to come out during your lifetime? From 5-year-olds to 75-year-olds, take a look at what people of every consecutive age think about new innovations.

Released on 07/19/2017

Transcript

[Interviewer] What's the most important piece of

technology that has come out in your lifetime?

I have a sewing machine.

Lights.

Watching stuff on my iPad.

None.

A MacBook Air.

Phones.

Those Swagway's thingy.

Smartphones.

Probably my phone.

Digital phones.

iPhone.

My iPhone.

The iPhone.

I can't live without it.

I would have to say the iPod.

The iPhone.

The iPhone.

Oh cellphone, 100%.

I'm never ... I'm too far away from it right now

to be honest.

The iPhone.

A Walkman.

That changed my life completely.

Definitely the iPhone.

Probably smartphones.

My cellphone, especially my GPS app on my cellphone.

The web.

I think the most obvious answer is a smartphone.

No, yeah, I mean the iPhone.

Definitely the smartphone.

That's my final answer to that.

The iPhone, it's a gamechanger.

The internet.

I would say a laptop.

The iPhone.

The iPhone.

No, the internet.

The digital camera.

We've got Rovers running around on Mars

and things going through the galaxy,

taking these great photos of planets

we've never seen before,

but it's a smartphone unfortunately.

Smartphone, because this is only my second one. [laughs]

Cellphone.

That would probably have to be the internet.

Gotta say the cellphone.

Do I have to say it, is it the iPhone?

The EasyPASS.

I think the most important pieces of technology

that have come out in my lifetime

are relatively unknown.

Things that have been found in the medical industry

and in science and technology.

My cellphone.

Advances in the microchip.

The cellphone.

The digital camera.

Obviously the iPhone.

Computers.

Probably the cellphone.

The smartphone.

A laptop.

Computer.

The cellphone.

All the apps.

The computer, tablet.

Smartphone?

Oh, no question, it's the PC.

Computer in a pocket.

Probably the computer.

The personal computer.

The iPhone.

I think the internet.

I hate technology.

I would say the cellphone.

Well the computer.

The personal computer.

It's the internet.

The GPS. [laughs]

I would say the internet has probably moved us forward

faster than anything else.

Internet and the computers.

The phone, the iPhone.

The cellphone.

I would say the computer.

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