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Comment by Blackstrat

2 days ago

I would suggest that MS Excel should be replaced by VisiCalc. While MS Excel is more feature complete and capable, VisiCalc was the idea. Further, while you included products that run on the computer, you didn't include the computer itself and key figures like Turing, Von Neumann, This was dependent on the transistor and the folks around Claude Shannon. And the whole digital life we know today derives from things like the Apollo Program in the 1960s, Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, MIT Instrumentation Lab, etc. And none of these electronics breakthroughs would have been possible without Quantum Theory and Relativity bringing us Bohr and Einstein and all their successors. Not to mention James Clerk Maxwell and his equations. And this is just the technology side of the question. Get into biology/medicine, etc. and the list explodes further. the double helix discovery (Crick & co), Harvey and blood circulation. The list is endless. Move into the government/political realm and the significance of things like the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution cannot be overstated. It's all about what context you are positioning those "creations".