LECTURE L02A JOURNEY EXPLORINGTECHNOLOGY

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Time Machine

1899

Alternating Current Power Plant at World's Fair, Chicago, 1893.

TECHNOLOGY AT THE DAWN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Now Explain the World 100 years later

TECHNOLOGY AT THE DAWN OF THE 21ST CENTURY

WE BASE THE FUTURE ON WHAT WE KNOW FROM THE PAST

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

- Arthur C. Clark’s 3rd Law

CENTURY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Radio Messages

Airplanes

Ice lolly

Ford model T

Talking pictures

Zipper

Stainless steel

Tanks

Penicillin

FM Radio

Computers

Nuclear fission

Ballistic missile

Transistor

Atom bomb

Solar battery

PC

Integrated circuit

Video game consoles

GUIs

TV

ARPANET

Laser

Altair

CD-ROM

Mosaic

DVD

WWW

“He was the pre-eminent scientist in a century dominated by science. The

touchstones of the era — the Bomb, the Big Bang, quantum physics and

electronics — all bear his imprint.”

Revolutiospecial theory of relativity

model of the atom

discovery of the electron

theory of continental drift

nuclear chain reaction

discovery of the positron, neutron

big bang theoryquantum theory

uncertainty principle

Study Exercise

What is technology? Please provide a definition

What is Technology?

Is  this  Technology?  

All  Technology  was  once  new  

All  Technology  was  once  new  

   Technology  in  the  15

Bartolomeo  Cristofori  1655-­‐1731

Frédéric  Chopin  1810-­‐1849

Nocturne   Op.  9  No  2

Johann Sebastian Bach would only in 1747 approve the piano

TechnologyWe think it is something new

New technology is Emotional

TechnologyTechne is greek for art or skill Logos is greek for word, speech

The word “technology”was used in 1801 byJohann Beckmann (1739-1811), a German scientific author

The Effects of Good Government, a fresco in the City Hall of Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338.

Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants

Definition of Technology

Process by which an organisation transforms labor, capital, material, and information into products and services of greater values

Technology

The value you get out of a product for which you have paid some cost

Product Performance

31977    Apple  II  $1,298  4.000  bytes  memory  Motorola  6502  1MHz

2007    iMac  17-­‐inch  $1,199  1.000.000.000  bytes  memory  Intel  2.0GHz

2000 2010

iMac iPhoneMac OS 9.0.4 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB MemoryScreen - 786K pixelsStorage - 30GB Hard Drive

iOS 4.0 1 Ghz ARM A4 CPU, 512MB MemoryScreen - 614K pixelsStorage - 32GB Flash Drive

Source:  Ars  Technical  Images:  Apple

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Innovation

The change in the technology

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Evolution of the human brain

Exponential World