2. The internet, first used for military communications, has grown into a web of links too complex to navigate by yourself. It's now impossible to imagine society without it. According to Internet World Stats, there were 1,574,313,184 internet users as of Dec 31, 2008. Wikipedia INTERNET
3. Where would the world be without television? Inventor John Logie Baird (inset) gave the first public demonstration of a working television system to members of the Royal Institution on January 26, 1926. TELEVISION
4. The first digital electronic computer, invented by Claude Shannon in 1940, was a turning point for the programmable devices that are common today. In 1947, Konrad Zuse created the the world's first operational computer, the Z3.The personal computer entered the commercial market in 1977. It was touted as a tool that would entertain, help calculate finances and boost creative development. Now that comes with camera too. COMPUTER
5. On April 3, 1973, mobile pioneer Dr Martin Cooper called his rival, Dr Joel S. Engel, the head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs, as he walked down a New York City street, talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype in front of reporters. The first commercial mobile phone, Dr Cooper's Dyna-Tac, was released the same year. Today, mobiles are used for more than just keeping in touch. MOBILE
6. Pacemakers (pictured) are implanted to aid control of a particular body part. The artificial pacemaker controls the heartbeats while the brain pacemaker (inset) includes deep brain stimulators, which send electrical impulses to the brain in order to relieve depression, epilepsy, and tremors. As of May 2008 more than 40,000 patients word wide had received the brain pacemaker. PACEMAKER
7. The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. According to NASA there are over 3000 useful satellites in Earth's orbit are used for communication, observation, weather and navigation SATELLITE
8. Julius Robert Oppenheimer (inset) worked on the Manhattan Project, which aimed to develop the first nuclear weapons. He is called the "father of the atomic bomb". The first atomic bomb, known as "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 and killed more than 140,000 people. BOMB
9. The first working laser -Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation was demonstrated on May 16, 1960, by Theodore Maiman. The largest single application of lasers is in optical storage devices such as CD/DVD players, and can also be found in barcode readers, printers, pointers, and even weapons. See how a space-based laser would use light to shoot down ballistic missiles, to be used in space in 2012 LASER
10. The first human spaceflight took place on April 12, 1961 when the Vostok 1 carrying Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made one orbit around the Earth Space travel has allowed humans to explore other planets in our solar system. It has also allowed humans a chance to step foot on the moon – a notion once considered impossible.
11. High-fibre diet ... invented by Donald Keck (Pictured), Peter Schultz and Robert Muir, fibre optics allow transmission of data at high speeds over long distances. Fibre optics are now replacing old metal wires in telecommunications systems as fibres are immune to electromagnetic inter-fence which makes them perfect for data-heavy applications such as the internet, television, and telephone connections.
12. Former President of India Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam said, “The car you drive in New York, in Kolkata, in New Delhi, produces 30 billion tonnes of CO2. This pollution comes from the fossil fuels that we buy for $ 45-50 billion. I have been advocating that we go from fossil fuel usage to solar power, to nuclear power and bio-fuel. With bio-fuel, agriculture will also benefit out of that.” Let the young people work towards achieving his vision and the seniors like us support in all possible ways. If you or anyone known to you is having an idea please share with me at humancapital@man2succeed.org. This is an initiation towards building a national forum on eco-friendly bio-fuel.
