LECTURE L02A JOURNEY EXPLORINGTECHNOLOGY

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LECTURE L02A JOURNEY EXPLORINGTECHNOLOGY

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1899

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

TECHNOLOGY AT THE DAWN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Now explain to someone technology today

TECHNOLOGY AT THE DAWN OF THE 21ST CENTURY

OUR VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY IS VERY CONTEMPORARY

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

Internet

VCR

COMPLEXITY OF TECHNOLOGY

EXPONENTIAL GROWTH

“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.”

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 theoryquantum theory

uncertainty principle

Assignment 1

How would you explain the term technology?

What is Technology?

Is this Technology?

All Technology was once new

All Technology was once newTechnology is very much about perception

All Technology was once new

Technology in the 15th century

Bartolomeo Cristofori 1655-1731

Nocturne Op. 9 No 2

Frédéric Chopin 1810-1849

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 by Johann 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 iPhoneiMac G3Mac OS 9.0.4 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB MemoryScreen - 786K pixels Storage - 30GB Hard Drive

iPhone 4iOS 4.0 1 Ghz ARM A4 CPU, 512MB MemoryScreen - 614K pixels Storage - 32GB Flash Drive

THE SECOND HALF OF THE CHESSBOARD

Innovation

The change in the technology

EXPONENTIALGROWTH

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Evolution of the human brain

Exponential World