>>Sorry this has nothing to do with medicine but my daughter - aged 14
- was
>>asked by her teacher today to find out what the seven wonders of the
modern
>>world are. I've searched Encarta and The Web but all I can find are
the
>>Wonders of the ancient world. Any ideas?
<modesty forbidding>
NHS Net, of course, and the NHS New IM& T strategy for certain. The
latter has already become legendary[1].
Wasn't the Aswan dam one candidate, one of the canals, probably
Panama rather than Suez another, the CERN ring might get a look in
at least now the superconducting supercollider has folded, one of
the tall American buildings was nominated a few years ago, but there
is a taller one in Kuala Lumpur I thnk, and others in Shanghai - one
of those anyway, the Saturn V (Shuttle is less impressive, and less
wondrous even though rather more useful), that piece of material
with IBM spelled out in the trademark dotted letters, each dot a
Xenon atom, and then the photograph shown around.
The World Wide Web? Or maybe the internet as a whole? Or actually,
I think the telephone network counts as one.
One thing to wonder at would be if the few million ancients could put
up 7 wonders, and the 3e9 of us moderns no more, why stop at 7?
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[1] definition: legend: half history and half fantasy, classically
part of an oral tradition.
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