10.5.2010

MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN: ELECTRICITY LEADS POLL OF GREATEST INNOVATION OF ALL TIME

Technology Academy Finland is on a mission to find the greatest innovation of all time as part of the build up to the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize, awarded to humane technologies. At the moment electricity tops the public ranking of most significant innovations.

Which historical innovation do you think has most significantly improved the quality of life on our planet?

The second place is, surprisingly, held by a far newer innovation, the Internet. The top 10 also features another communications technology: the telephone, currently in fifth place. Steam energy is third, surgery fourth and DNA in sixth place.

Don’t agree? There’s still time to have your say at the Millennium Campaign website www.millenniumprize.fi/quest. You can also take part in a draw to win a Nokia Booklet 3G mini laptop. The poll closes on 28 May 2010.

Give your opinion on the Millennium Facebook page

Become a supporter of the Millennium Technology Prize on Facebook and give us your opinion on the innovations: which one is your choice and why?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Millennium-Technology-Prize/260718074965

Which life-enhancing innovation would you invent?

There’s an innovator in every one of us. Will you be the next Tim Berners-Lee, Shuji Nakamura or Robert Langer? Would you save mankind by bringing eternal peace to the world? Play along with our tongue-in-cheek Millennium Facebook Quiz at http://apps.facebook.com/milleniumquiz to find out which innovation you might invent.

Further information:

Communications Officer Emilia Erkinheimo, Technology Academy Finland
Mobile +358 50 5877 144, email: emilia.erkinheimo (at) technologyacademy.fi