Which had a bigger cultural impact: invention of the television or the microwave?

[bean_boy23]

I think merit should be based on each items explicit advances in human life. I do however realize there will be inevitable cross-overs example; TV Dinner > TV Microwave dinner, but the television was invented far ahead of the microwave after all.

[Cable T]

The TV of course. Mankind had been cooking long before it's invention and TV reaches literally billions of people and has changed the course of history. Microwave made it easier to warm up leftovers.

[Herve]

TV by a long way. The microwave hasn't replaced the traditional oven at all.

[The Shadow™ ®]

what cultural impact has the microwave caused , if anything its been anti culture and made people stop sitting down together for dinner . TV has had a really big impact bringing people information and changing the world a lot . I can name one thing in particular , the broadcasting of bodies coming home during the vetnam war and reports on the daily battles was one of the big factors that make people protest the war and made the war end when it did , for this reason the u.s government actually banned networks from showing bodies offloading from plane during the Iraq war because they knew that it would cause the same reaction against this useless war

[Giovanni]

I believe it was the invention of the Television. The television has had many effects on our culture some good some bad. If you place them in chronological order it would have to be the rock and roll era, starting with Elvis, and all the rock and roll pioneers, how their style was marketed to youngsters, and an era of kids beginning to be disobedient towards their parents, then it continued to shift our culture by the civil rights movements, how they were advertised on television, how the hippie movement and the minority tolerance began to have a major focus on society. This was the good part of it, including the Vietnam war. Even though it was an unpopular war, the supporters were still at a high percentage. The images portrayed in new channels all over the country made people realize that kids were being sent there, to die in vain, and in spite of what military newspapers and correspondents said we were loosing the war. This shifted public opinion about the war. The 80's was an era where there was a lot of advertisement about drugs, and kids were at their wildest, and most disobedient state. This was caused by Television, and in part by the bastard offsprings of the civil rights groups that were created by the same device, a decade earlier. The 90's Television portrayed gang wars, and idolized the gangster mentality that strenghten the hip-hop movement in America, but it also gave America a quick view about the things that were not being talked about here at home. For example poverty, the social injustices that persisted in our country, and that some many people were unaware of. Finally the 2000 was an Era were more focus was put on political correcteness, and the toning down of the has beens of hip-hop. Today that is all I see on TV, Political correctness, and the wussifying of America. On some channels there is a sense of terror being advertised, that which tell us that we have to be afraid of everything now. Hope this helps.