For example: Jaws crashed the shark population and Sideways changed the popularity of 2 different Wines.
The first weekend of Pokemon Go was the closest we ever got to world peace.
Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species.
both good and bad, that one. Lots of good for understanding life on earth (us included), lots of bad for how humans started treating skin color.
Bugs Bunny changed so much of the world you have no idea. Changed the diet of rabbits because he was making fun of a celebrity. Changed an obscure biblical character into a name for an idiot.
Dr Seuss changed the English language almost as much as Shakespeare.
Also, Shakespeare.
BioShock Infinite accidentally, and indirectly, caused a massive advancement in the animation industry.
Kung Fu Panda changed China’s movie industry.
Bugs Bunny took over the soviet Union after lenins death and all that followed. Lets not forget that episode “bugs bunny and the soviet Genosits!” Bugs Bunny wearing a Stalin Costume
A Grand Day Out saved the Wensleydale cheese company when they were on the brink of bankruptcy.
“Not even Wendsleydale?”
Marx, Kant, all of Leibniz’ writings. Leibniz needs to be honored more for how ahead of his time he was. Computing algorythms in the 17th century. Mathematics on universe? The last Polymath…
Marx is probably the single most important writer in all of history, and it’s honestly unlikely that he will ever be supplanted. The dude gave us the science for understanding how human societies function and how to resolve structural problems. What could be more important than that?
The first code of laws of civilization?
Except that historical materialism shows that civilizations and laws change based modes and relationships of production. So sure, the first set of laws were important, but Marxism allows us to analyze and optimally shape those laws. To me, that is a more important development.
No, yeah, you’re right. I see your point and you’re right :)
Star Trek introduced a lot of the first concepts of what we currently use as every day technology, it had a first hand tangible impact on the lives of pretty much every human alive today.
Hey I love star trek as much as the next guy but this is a bit of an overstatement.
They didn’t invent anything, it’s just a portrayal of what the future might look like.
Some of it is very obvious and not much of a prediction: like a hand held device with sensors - but they did get the form factor and use cases completely wrong.
Most of it is obviously remains fictional, like transporters.
Sorry if you want to say trek predicted the future you have to ignore the majority of the show which they got completely wrong.
Nowhere did I say they invented anything nor predicted the future. Learn some reading comprehension.
Oh sorry, it’s just that you seemed to be saying that star trek changed the world by introducing the first concepts of tech we used today.
It did. Do you not understand the difference between invention and first concept? I never gave them credit for everything, but it’s indisputable that the cell phone was inspired directly by Star Trek communicators, that is according to the inventor of the first cell phone, as well as the concept of multi-funtion interface devices which is exactly what you’re likely holding in your hand at this very moment which is also a cell phone.
Feel free to die on that hill, but what I’m saying is an objective fact.
LOL.
There’s some “objective facts” in that guys memoirs aparently:
As Martin Cooper reveals in his new memoir Cutting the Cord: The Creator of the Cell Phone Speaks Out, cellular technology was actually being developed in the late ’50s and through the ’60s. By the time Star Trek debuted in 1966, Cooper and his team at Motorola were practically in the home stretch; in 1973, they debuted the first-ever handheld mobile telephone, the brick-like DynaTAC. Cooper himself made the first cell phone call on October 17, 1973—to his chief competitor at AT&T, with whom he’d been in a bit of a cellular space race, as revealed in the book
The article goes on to explain coopers role in the star trek myth.
Very obviously, handheld devices were inevitable and predictable in the 60s when ToS was written. That was my original point.
See, it’s this kind of shit, this is exactly why people can’t fucking stand contrarians. Jesus fucking christ, get a life.
Ok let’s recap:
- you trot out something you learned from some shatner edutainment you saw, as fact
- assertion does not withstand a moment’s critical thought
- you double down with some ad hominem and some “objective facts”
- facts are proven false by your own purported source
- you triple down with more ad hominem, because of course you’re not the problem.
This pattern of interaction is common among a particular type of person. I’ll give you a tip for free: it’s not smart people.
The book Unsafe at Any Speed was partly responsible for the formation of both the US Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The Jungle was a book about the meat packing industry in 1906. It detailed horrific treatment of the animals and disgusting unsanitary treatment of the meat products.
It led to public outrage and caused the Meat Inspection Act to be passed in the same year. That Act laid the foundation for modern health inspections in food facilities.
Surprised the Crying Indian American TV ad isn’t in here. I have a giggle when I see someone on here outraged that they saw someone toss trash out their car window. That was SOP until the Crying Indian. I can’t think of a PSA in my lifetime that made such a dramatic impact.
While not a piece of media exactly, reporting on the Tylenol Murders changed packaging almost overnight. Used to be you could pull anything off the shelf, open it and close it, no one would be the wiser. I remember as a kid suddenly encountering all the things suddenly having tamper-proof packaging. It was truly wild to my young brain.
Crying Indian is such an interesting nugget of history. Paid for by the plastics lobby who saw the writing on the wall of getting regulated for excessive trash. This same plastics lobby also coined the term “litter bug” and tried to get the world to forget that bottled drinks were sold in reusable bottles that would be deposited, washed, refilled and resealed. But also like you said, the standard procedure was to just toss your trash outside and not worry about it before this campaign, in part because nearly all packaging was biodegradable if not completely reusable until about a generation before this ad campaign (the Ford model T literally came with instructions to reuse the crate it shipped in to make the truck bed for example)
Hadn’t thought of that bit! Yeah, plastics and styrofoam probably surged in packaging when I was a kid. Going to the store with mom was certainly a different experience. We even returned bottles for change.
The 95 Thesen by Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation. That’s an impact that cannot be understated.
It didnt start it. That has long been brewing. Lollards, waldensians, hussites, fracitellis, all came prior.
Matrin Luthers trials, were just the cherry ontop, the last drop. Supported by the duke of Saxony in the absolute disgusting mess of authority that was the HRE and the vast spread of his translation of the bible due to the printing press was what differed him from Wickliff, why he failed and Luther “succeeded”. These are the things that made the reformation spread like a fire. Luther never wanted to split the church, he was still very pro church and nobility authority over the peasents (unlike Thomas Münzer). But the Rulers wanted more power and the people were done with the clerical order and read how they arent following what jesus was preaching.
The Borgias, Pope Alexander VI was on another level of corrupt and would have probably whiped his ass with the papal robes.
Sorry its early my ADHD meds are kicking in as im typing this and history is my autistic hyperfocus :)
Haha, absolutely! That is why I said “sparked”. The Reformatory forces had been brewing for ages! It’s a super interesting period of history!!!
Dracula and Frankenstein both came out during the same year, 1931. Dracula was so popular in early 1931 that they were able to do all of Frankenstein by the end of the year. Can you imagine?
Those two began the modern era of horror. Modern being not silent.
I guess talking about a movie? Frankenstein book came out in 1818 and Dracula book came out 1897.
Final Destination caused an entire generation of drivers to abjectly refuse to take up any space within a quarter mile behind a log truck.
For anybody wanting to watch the movie so they understand this meme, don’t actually watch Final Destination, because the log scene is not in there. I know this because I watched the whole movie waiting to see it, and never saw it.
The log scene is in Final Destination 2.
Some of the all-time most influential include:
- Capital - Karl Marx
The masterwork of Karl Marx, and one of the most widely cited economic books in history. Capital was a direct influence on much of the developments of the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
While not as theoretically deep and important as Capital, the manifesto isn’t more broadly known for no reason. As a work of agitation and propaganda, the manifesto was a major force for spreading communist ideas.
- What is to be Done? - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov “Lenin”
This is the work that cemented Lenin as a critical organizer in the Russian labor movement, amidst all of the many socialist thinkers at the time. Lenin gave an analysis of the various movements at the time, such as Economism, and put forth the necessity of an All-Russian newspaper to connect the working masses from local struggles to the entire struggle.
- Imperialism, the Current Highest Stage of Capitalism - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov “Lenin”
This is perhaps Lenin’s most relevant work today, and has guided how communists view the evolution of capitalism since the time of Marx and Engels. Lenin didn’t merely say “imperialism bad,” he analyzed a concrete material process that capitalism necessarily evolves into, a stage in capitalism that has lasted to today.
- The State and Revolution - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov “Lenin”
Also critically important from Lenin, where he took a firm stance against the social democratic line of reformism and instead restored Marxism’s revolutionary aspect. Using the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin analyzed the class character of states, and elaborated on the economic basis of the withering of the state.
- Marxism and the National Question - Iosif Dzhugashvili “Stalin”
This is the work that put Stalin on the map in the Marxist movement, period. As an ethnic Georgian, Stalin was a national minority in the Russian Empire. This work was so influential that it shifted Lenin’s opinion on the national question, and caused Trotsky to suspect that Stalin never wrote it to begin with because of how high quality it was, with Stalin not writing much in the way of new theory since.
This is where Mao made the case for a peasant revolution in China. Prior to Mao, many communists lacked a belief in the peasantry as a primary engine of revolution, merely believing the peasantry could be supportive of the proletariat but not the primary engine.
Whether you agree with these works or not, what cannot be denied is the sheer influence of these works, and the cascading impact they have had on the struggles of today. They shaped the 20th century and are still shaping the 21st.
