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by timthelion
3273 days ago
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I've thought about that, and it is certainly true that I now know of most technologies and therefore cannot learn something new each week. However, the stream of technologies which realy did arive and prove to be world shaking in the past was real. There's no way cynicism is playing a role here. I saw (in no particular order) 1. consumer internet
2. WIFI
3. the first laptop with more than an hours charge capacity
4. the first tablet/smartphones
5. the incredible increases in bandwidth
6. the invention of mobile internet
7. the invention of google maps
8. the invention of code completion and inteligent IDEs.
9. the first interactive account based web services (web 2.0)
10. the laser mouse
12. working touch interfaces
13. the consumer digital camera
14. voice streaming
15. video streaming
16. hardware virtualization
17. the consumer 3D printer
18. the consumer CNC kit
19. bluetooth
20. the quadrocopter
21. wacom stylus interface over a glass screen
22. USB ports (might not seem like much now, but wow did that change things!)
23. CD roms
24. the push notification
25. distributed version control
26. automated software updates
27. consumer LCD monitors That's all I can think of for now, but I'm sure there are more... Almost all of those things were invented since I was 10ish, so there should be >1 really world shaking real, buy it on the shelf today, type techs per year. The only such consumer technology that has come to my attention in the past 3 years is the electric bicycle, and that has yet to shake the world. What recent real, actually existing technology has impacted reality to the extend that the ones that I listed have? Siri? |
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