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Let's talk about the evolution of technology.
Technology is one of those very interesting things I like talking about. How far have we come in the last 30 years?
Phones!
Phones have gone from being device that simply allowed you to talk to someone remotely to something that... well, you'd spend less time talk about what phones CAN'T do!
Audio!
Remember back in late 80s and early 90s, a walkman used to be the coolest thing ever with those bulky headphones? Then as time went on, they become slightly slimmer, smaller, slicker and the headphones went and in came the earphones? Then walkmans went off the rails altogether and everyone wanted a discman? They become the best things to have. Playing cds on the go. The discman then went out and in came the MD player from sony, so you were still playing cds, but mini cds and they were set to replace cds for good (lol). Then apple came along with it's iPod, and the rest is history!
Visual!
Visual speaks from itself, similarly to audio. We've gone from have Video recorders to dvd players, and since then, HD DVD (lol), blu-ray players which include media players so you can plug your usb in your blu-ray player or tv and watch a show or movie without actually owning something physical that relates to it (apart from the USB) via digital download!
Video Games!
Remember the black and white (or mercy green) Nintendo gameboy? That's gone from adding colour and 3d graphics to the Nintendo 3DS - an 8th generation hand-held console.
Do I even need to start? Back in the days, you used to have turns playing video games and swapping the control pad around, then it went to split-screen playing, then online and blue-tooth wireless playing, and now, you can have 2 different people playing a game on the same screen, with a pair of glasses that (similarly to 3d tv), have 2 people look at the same screen and see 2 completely different things. Gone are the split-screen games, now you can play the same game at the same time and see 2 different things on the screen depending on what glasses you're wearing.
There's HEAPS more, GPS systems, internet fridges, smart cars (auto reverse parking), watches - that's right WATCHES! Remember the calculator watches? Or the watches that contained radio players? The watches that contained a TV remote control? Now we have internet-phone watches. The list goes on...
Technology will be so smart one day that it will be able to think for itself. If you've seen I, Robot, you'll know what I'm talking about. I don't think it's far-fetched at all and could be quite scary if you think about it.
Technology is one of those very interesting things I like talking about. How far have we come in the last 30 years?
Phones!
Phones have gone from being device that simply allowed you to talk to someone remotely to something that... well, you'd spend less time talk about what phones CAN'T do!
Audio!
Remember back in late 80s and early 90s, a walkman used to be the coolest thing ever with those bulky headphones? Then as time went on, they become slightly slimmer, smaller, slicker and the headphones went and in came the earphones? Then walkmans went off the rails altogether and everyone wanted a discman? They become the best things to have. Playing cds on the go. The discman then went out and in came the MD player from sony, so you were still playing cds, but mini cds and they were set to replace cds for good (lol). Then apple came along with it's iPod, and the rest is history!
Visual!
Visual speaks from itself, similarly to audio. We've gone from have Video recorders to dvd players, and since then, HD DVD (lol), blu-ray players which include media players so you can plug your usb in your blu-ray player or tv and watch a show or movie without actually owning something physical that relates to it (apart from the USB) via digital download!
Video Games!
Remember the black and white (or mercy green) Nintendo gameboy? That's gone from adding colour and 3d graphics to the Nintendo 3DS - an 8th generation hand-held console.
Do I even need to start? Back in the days, you used to have turns playing video games and swapping the control pad around, then it went to split-screen playing, then online and blue-tooth wireless playing, and now, you can have 2 different people playing a game on the same screen, with a pair of glasses that (similarly to 3d tv), have 2 people look at the same screen and see 2 completely different things. Gone are the split-screen games, now you can play the same game at the same time and see 2 different things on the screen depending on what glasses you're wearing.
There's HEAPS more, GPS systems, internet fridges, smart cars (auto reverse parking), watches - that's right WATCHES! Remember the calculator watches? Or the watches that contained radio players? The watches that contained a TV remote control? Now we have internet-phone watches. The list goes on...
Technology will be so smart one day that it will be able to think for itself. If you've seen I, Robot, you'll know what I'm talking about. I don't think it's far-fetched at all and could be quite scary if you think about it.
