Hi and welcome to other awesome Reviews by Cyb3r G33ks, where we take interesting ideas related to data, technology, business, and careers then turn them into unique and intriguing content for your enjoyment. So, without delay, lets get started.Nowadays, it feels like every week another ground-breaking invention or idea is revealed.
But how did we get here?
Now we are going to look at the evolution of technology from the very beginning.Well go through some of the most influential devices and concepts that have led us to the techno-fueled world we live in today.Our time travel journey starts pretty much when we did, before selfies, trolling, open-world gaming, and cheesy info graphic videos, way back in 35,000 BC with the first recorded example of counting.It all began with a simple tally on a bone
the Lebombo bone.Talk about up cycling!
More conveniently, Papyrus paper was invented in 3,000 BC for recording and the Abacus in 2,300 BC for sums.These had evolution of their own for the next couple of millennia up to around 100CE where they reached a state of how we know them today.This was also the time Hindu Arabic numerals were developed, not the first characterized numbers but ones that allow complex mathematics.Jumping to the second millennia we have the development of the Torque tum a complex analog computer used to measure astronomical coordinates and is the bases for all modern astronomical instruments.The Torque tum was the first device used for the observation of Hayleys Comet.Equally terrifying and amazing In 1206 came one of the first examples of the concept of automation with Al-Jazari Programmable automate which helped to fuel the ideas of mechanical humans and artificial intelligence.Recently, evidence was discovered showing that the first mechanical calculator was conceived in 1502 by none other than Leonardo DA VINCI who invented everything.However, nothing came of it and after a few manual calculation systems, the first mechanical calculator was realized as Pascals Calculator in 1642.Shortly after, we got the binary system.But It wasn't until the 1800s that technology was advanced enough to take advantage of it.Starting with the Jacquard Loom, which used punch cards to automatically weave designs, then leading to Babbages concept of the difference engine and later the analytical engine.Unfortunately, these last two projects were actualized due to funding but that didn't stop the world's first computer programmer Ada Lovelace from seeing how they could work and writing the first-ever algorithm.Then we literally captured lightning in a bottle and harnessed electricity, we performed the census with a tabulating machine for the first time, the tripod was invented essential for the development of television and radio, we came up with the idea of a thinking machine the first-ever robot in the Sci-Fi film metropolis and the Turing machine was conceptualized.All this played a huge part in the creation of the first-ever electric computer in 1939s.
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer.Work on the Atanasoff-Berry was discontinued due to World War II, but other computers built for the war effort, like the colossus and Zuse Z3, were developed.During the war, a model for computational neural networks was created.After the war had ended we got the ENIAC - the grandfather of digital computing, the UNI-VAC for business and government, the transistor, and the first thinking machines in the SNARC and the IBM 701.This was the first computer that displayed AI capabilities as it learned to play checkers.The 50s saw another step forward in machine learning with the Logic Theorists a program designed to mimic the grammar skills of a human and dubbed the first AI program.This decade also sees the integrated circuit which in the 60s was starting to be used in digital computers.This gives us the first-ever minicomputer the PDP 1 which, in turn, creates the need for the mouse and graphical user interface.We also got Eliza, the first-ever Chat-bot. The end of the 60s saw programmable calculators, supercomputers, operating systems and the introduction of ARPANET, the internet€ humbler and less complex older sibling, and of course the Apollo guidance computer.The 1970s saw these technologies become commercial and with that came a flood of new developments the Honeywell 316, Canon Pocketronic, the first DRAM and microprocessors, the iconic floppy disk, the first humanoid robot, and the first commercially available microcomputer.The decade saw plenty of improvements to the technology including Microsoft's first programming language, and IBM and Apples original entries into desktop computing.The end of the 70s saw the first automated vehicles the Stanford carts and led us into the 80s where technology was quickly getting smaller, cheaper, and more powerful.We also find the development of back propagation and CD ROM.During this time, tech is becoming so compact that the Gavilan SC is marketed as an laptop computer.AI is also making leaps and bounds with Cycle, a project aiming to build a knowledge base of basic concepts,rules of thumb and common sense to assist AI applications perform human-like thinking.In the following 5 years, we get handheld computers, AI that teaches itself to speak, the first versions of windows and excel, plenty of supercomputers, laptops, desktops, processors, and in 1989 we get the world wide web.The web and some big leaps in processing power in the early 90s brought PCs into the realm of entertainment devices.This decade introduced us to PC gaming, DVDs, internet browsers.We got some of the first mobile phone devices from Nokia to fit in our hands and supercomputers that are now able to beat human master chess champions with Deep Blue.And lets not forget Sky-net, I mean Google.For the next decade, we see the development of various computers, hard drives, robots, processors, and the still in use USB.In the mid 2000s, we get our first 64-bit processor and dual-core CPU, a huge jump in speed and power of computing.Speaking of speed, in 2002 we got the first commercial Maglevs short for magnetic levitation train.The world is also introduced to YouTube and thus the innate human need for on-demand cat videos was satisfied.With the huge growth and commercialization of technology in the last decade or two, data is everywhere. Thats why in 2005 the term Big data is coined.Apple shows its power in the tech field with the release of the Mac Book Pro, while the iPhone brings smartphones to the mainstream.In the late 2000s, IBM shows off its dominance in the realm of the supercomputer by having the fastest in the world with the blue gene then bettering it themselves with the roadrunner.The block-chain arrives in force in 2008 to shake up the financial sector among others.
China and Japan start to push back IBM in a battle for who has the most powerful supercomputer, with the Tianhe and K computer, respectively.This leads to some of the biggest jumps in computing power.We also see another show of AIs growth with Siri and Watson, who wins Jeopardy against human opponents.And its not just on earth where things are getting more advanced with the Mars Rover-showing the rest of the universe what we're capable of.To exemplify how far we have come to this point, in 2012 and 2013 we have supercomputers that reach exascale speed and on our wrists, we have computational devices millions of times faster than the computers that sent a rocket to the moon.And did I mention now that our rockets can land themselves – with a lot more computing power than a watch, mind you.By 2016 we have officially reached Sci-Fi territory with self-aware Sophia, 3-D printed prosthetic limbs and realistic virtual reality.At this point we're looking at molecular computing because humanity love making small tech especially things like almost paper-thin laptops with incredibly fast processors and cancer-fighting nanobots.And because we also like to show off, we have the fastest supercomputer at 200 petaflops with summit.New grounds of travel and AI combined with the model S. And Atlas who puts many of to shame with his precision parkour.We are in amazing times.But where do you think we'll be heading next?What will be the next big thing?Are we may be going too fast, our ancestors had much more time to process and learn from new developments.We'd like to open up a discussion in the comments and get your thoughts on the future of technology.And, of course, if you enjoyed this video and would like to see more like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell.
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