L02 A Journey Exploring Technology
For the most time of human history, life was local and linear. Local in the way that anything that happened was close by, a least within a walking distance. Linear in the way that your life was the same as your father and your childs. Nothing changed. Just like the evolution of man, technology improvements follow an evolutionary progress. New ideas or products are to begin with immature and fragile with slow improvements. Then the progress accelerates until the products become mature and taken for granted. Then the cycle repeats and a new layer of technology is added to the previous. This process is exponential. One such observation of exponential is Moore’s Law. Any new technology that gets wide acceptance in society needs to be adopted by people. We will explore that type of people are the first to adopt new things, and what types come later. At any given moment it is easy to look back to see how technology has changed over time. At the same time it is difficult to see what transformations are taking place in current moment, and even more difficult to see where things are going. In the late 19th century a revolution in science took off. It was easy to see the vast number of inventions and entrepreneurial spirit of the time. At the dawn of the 20th century, it seems that everything had been invented. Yet, in the 20th century we saw more innovations and more technologically advanced than in all history of mankind before that. Never in history have we seen such dramatic changes in the way people live and work. In this lecture we explore what to make of technology. We define the term we will use in the course. Terms defined are technology, product performance, and innovation to name few.
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L02 A Journey Exploring Technology
- 1. LECTURE L02 A JOURNEY EXPLORING TECHNOLOGY
- 5. LECTURE L02 A JOURNEY EXPLORING TECHNOLOGY
- 7. 1899
- 8. Alternating Current Power Plant at World's Fair, Chicago, 1893.
- 9. TECHNOLOGY AT THE DAWN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
- 10. Now explain to someone technology today
- 11. TECHNOLOGY AT THE DAWN OF THE 21ST CENTURY
- 12. OUR VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY IS VERY CONTEMPORARY
- 13. WE BASE THE FUTURE ON WHAT WE KNOW FROM THE PAST
- 15. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C. Clark’s 3rd Law
- 16. 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 Internet VCR
- 19. “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.”
- 20. special 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 theory quantum theory uncertainty principle
- 21. Assignment 1 How would you explain the term technology?
- 24. All Technology was once new
- 25. All Technology was once new Technology is very much about perception
- 26. All Technology was once new
- 27. Technology in the 15th century
- 32. Nocturne Op. 9 No 2 Frédéric Chopin 1810-1849
- 33. Johann Sebastian Bach would only in 1747 approve the piano
- 34. Technology We think it is something new New technology is emotional
- 35. Technology Techne is greek for art or skill Logos is greek for word, speech
- 36. The word “technology” was used in 1801 by Johann Beckmann (1739-1811), a German scientific author
- 37. The Effects of Good Government, a fresco in the City Hall of Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338.
- 38. Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants
- 41. Process by which an organisation transforms labor, capital, material, and information into products and services of greater values Technology
- 46. The value you get out of a product for which you have paid some cost Product Performance
- 47. 1977 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
- 48. 2000 2010 iMac iPhone iMac G3 Mac OS 9.0.4 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB Memory Screen - 786K pixels Storage - 30GB Hard Drive iPhone 4 iOS 4.0 1 Ghz ARM A4 CPU, 512MB Memory Screen - 614K pixels Storage - 32GB Flash Drive THE SECOND HALF OF THE CHESSBOARD
- 50. Innovation The change in the technology