Hi!

This is my second IEOR 190G Blog Post regarding my ppt presentation of my selection of the 10 most innovative inventions ever.

In tenth place I have contraceptives as they allowed us to control the size of our population. This enabled humans in unsatisfactory living conditions to have a way to prevent childbirth. In so doing humans can now have a better chance of receiving a better parenting environment ultimately helping the growth of our population.
Next is refrigeration. It allowed us to conserve our aliments for more than one day enabling long distance trading of perishable goods.
Next come electricity. Not only did electricity lead to explosive bubble of new inventions, it revolutionized our outlook on energy and its transportation.
Next is anesthesia which allowed us to perform excruciating invasive procedures that would be impossible to perform otherwise greatly transforming our healthcare scene and changing life-ending diseases to just a surgery.
Telecommunications including the telegraph and the telephone revolutionized our society by allowing us to transfer information, human's most precious resource, at unprecedented speeds.
The compass allowed us to navigate over oceans, effectively increasing the size of our world and letting us know of the existence of other human societies.
I place the wheel in next place as it revolutionized our transportation. Being a mobile and originally nomadic species, this new ease in transportation improved almost every aspect of our lives in society.
In third place I have the control of fire. This allowed our ancestors to stay alive in the cold nights, it allowed us to cook our foods advancing our digestive systems and palates and it gave us protection. In second place I put the alphabet as it gave us a way to transfer knowledge, our most precious resource, through time and people.
I believe that the most important invention has been the internet. It gives us access to information coming from all the corners of the globe. Never before have we had so much information at our fingertips. Most importantly all of this information can be used in a vast multitude of applications.

Hi!

My name is Oliviero Figus and this is my first IEOR 190G Blog Post.

To introduce myself I am 20 years old and was born in London in the UK but grew up in Rome, Italy. I moved to the U.S. two and a half years ago to attend UC Berkeley and have loved it here ever since.

In my free time am passionate about soccer, skiing, traveling and the great outdoors. My academic interests lie in optimization and problem solving with a focus in Entrepreneurship.

I signed up for this course after having read about it in a CET email. As I have had good experiences in all of the CET course I have take so far, I decided to try out IEOR 190G as well. Now I can say that I am very excited to take this class as Professor Lavian seems extremely passionate about the material. I as feel the material we will learn is very relevant to my career path as an aspiring Entrepreneur. Most importantly I hope to learn the risk-reward relationship of patents and to learn more about the best strategy to take a new product to market.