Technology and how it has transformed due to technological innovations
Technological
innovations doesn’t mean only electronics and internet and a good
use of them, but the whole set of innovations over time combined that
makes daily life more convenient and enjoyable for everyone. I
consider that
technology has been mandatory for human existance. It's not possible
to claim that it wasn't, no matter how advanced the technology was at
its proved time, our greatest benefactor in the construction of the
new world and the maintainment of the old world up to decades of
years ago.
„With
the passage of time, technology has become very vital to human beings
and it has gotten to the point where most people fall asleep with
their phone or tablet next to them.” - www.businessdictionary.com
We
are exposed to technology before we are even aware that we are human
beings by the use of ultrasounds while inside the womb. We use
technology everywhere, we use it in construction, transport,
manufacturing, medicine, at home, at work and even preparing the food
we eat. Nowadays, technology innovation from the recent makes it
possible for us to find tons of information in just a few seconds, to
communicate with people across the globe, to save lives by doing some
of the world's toughest surgeries, the mass production of factory
products such as gadgets, tools and furniture, we can travel
thousands of miles in just a few hours and we’re building buildings
tall up to the clouds, heights of hundreds of meters. All of these
are possible thanks to the technology innovations that have taken
place over hundreds of years, even though we know that the past
hundred years gave us the most innovations in history, but we also
know that those innovations couldn’t have existed without a base, a
base built up in hundreds of years of ideas and development.
Innovation
it is spreading worldwide and it keeps us connected to any country in
the world, to any information from and about each country, it keeps
us connected with the whole globe, we can do things that back in
history were seen as impossible to happen ideas.
But
throughout the history, has technology always advanced so fast?
„Modern
humans are estimated to be about 200,000 years old, but it seems that
99 percent of technological progress has occurred in the last 10,000
years. What were we doing before that?” - www.slate.com
Our
current civilization is the most advanced breed in terms of
technology, and in the same time this means that advancing more and
more is easier than ever.
We
discovered the wheel about 4,000 years ago. This allowed us to travel
fast and transfer products and humans between regions. In short, we
spent a lot of time in a „try and fail” mode to find the right
places to live and the right things to eat. Given the short life
spans and the hard ways to communicate, ideas could not get
transmitted. As we discovered ways to keep us warm and bright at
night, got spare time due to agriculture we started putting our
brains to a good use.
Innovation
requires a lot of trial and error and the ability to build on
previous results. Until a few thousand years ago, these experiments
were local, and there was little we could learn from others'
experiments. Thus, a guy in Ethiopia might have been trying to master
fire control even 5,000 years after a guy in Sweden has already
mastered it. There was no easy way to transfer ideas given the lack
of wheel (to enable quick movement), writing systems, broadcast
communication, etc. The population was also too low to improve the
odds of experimentation. Lastly, we were too focused on survival to
afford us the time to innovate. Agriculture liberated us from the
focus on the daily search for food. Hundreds of years after the wheel
and fire were discovered, the innovations wer a lot easier but still
can’t be compared with the possibilities of our civilization.
History
tells us that one technological innovation leads to another ten
innovations, the more we advance in technology, the wider our
perspective to advance becomes and it always been like that, that’s
the main reason why our modern world is so far away than in any
period of time that people lived on. Every one of our inventions is
based on thousands of other inventions that happened through the
history and the inventions that follow will be based on what we
invent now.
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