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Post by mikael on Mar 8, 2023 16:46:23 GMT
A very interesting map ... (posted by someone on LinkedIn).
We are certainly privileged to live in a most exciting part of "the history of humankind" (with 'good' progress, as well as with 'bad' ...).
The most impressive evolution? Maybe the fact that the very first manned flight (Wright Brothers 1903) and the first manned landing on the moon (US/NASA 1969) happened just 66 years apart - i.e. within a single life-time. It's astonishing!
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Post by mikael on Mar 8, 2023 17:58:53 GMT
... but maybe the miniaturization of the computer is just (or almost) as astonishing. A Google search gave the following info:
The Cray-2 supercomputer (1985-1990)
The iPhone-12 (2020)
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Post by René on Mar 9, 2023 17:32:54 GMT
It is fascinating Mikael and certainly the invention of the computer has caused a huge snowball effect in the speed of development. Simply the idea that your iPhone has more computational power than the computers aboard the Space shuttle is mind blowing. Artificial intelligence is going to change the world as we know it probably even more and faster than we can imagine right now. The other day at the office, our website developer gave me a small demonstration how he used ChatGPT for his programming. The AI application does not only write amazingly good articles, it can also 'understand' and write code! And this is just the beginning. Fascinating and scary at the same time, certainly when you think about 'deep fake' videos but there's no stopping these developments. Like in F1, you can't undo knowledge...  |
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Post by Carl on Mar 9, 2023 19:46:27 GMT
The legend in Greek mythology of Pandora releasing a multitude of evils from containment may have been embraced by Steve Jobs, the bizarre antisocial genius who created an internet device with a video game platform and camera and called it a phone, reminiscent of the titular "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", a book of case histories compiled by neurologist Oliver Sacks. We may be in uncharted territory without a map or Han Solo at the controls
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Post by René on Mar 9, 2023 23:43:49 GMT
The legend in Greek mythology of Pandora releasing a multitude of evils from containment may have been embraced by Steve Jobs, the bizarre antisocial genius who created an internet device with a video game platform and camera and called it a phone, reminiscent of the titular "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", a book of case histories compiled by neurologist Oliver Sacks. We may be in uncharted territory without a map or Han Solo at the controls
Yep, Pandora’s box! And it seems the box is not empty yet… Great reference to Oliver Sacks. A fascinating and highly intelligent man of whom I read several books, also the above mentioned “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”. |
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Post by mikael on Mar 10, 2023 6:30:24 GMT
The legend in Greek mythology of Pandora releasing a multitude of evils from containment may have been embraced by Steve Jobs, the bizarre antisocial genius who created an internet device with a video game platform and camera and called it a phone, reminiscent of the titular "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", a book of case histories compiled by neurologist Oliver Sacks.
Yes, it's true, for an "portable internet device", it may be the telephone part it is optimized the least for, so it's actually a bit odd to call it a telephone or a phone.
But, referring to such a device, in Denmark, for example, what initially was called a "mobile telephone" is now just called a "mobile". And it's actually the same in Japan. What initially was called a "keitai denwa" (= portable telephone) is now just called a "keitai" (= portable). Those names are not too bad, although they, of course, are rather imprecise. (And one also has to get used to, and accept, that adjectives are used as nouns ...)
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Post by René on Mar 11, 2023 12:53:08 GMT
The legend in Greek mythology of Pandora releasing a multitude of evils from containment may have been embraced by Steve Jobs, the bizarre antisocial genius who created an internet device with a video game platform and camera and called it a phone, reminiscent of the titular "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", a book of case histories compiled by neurologist Oliver Sacks. Yes, it's true, for an "portable internet device", it may be the telephone part it is optimized the least for, so it's actually a bit odd to call it a telephone or a phone.
But, referring to such a device, in Denmark, for example, what initially was called a "mobile telephone" is now just called a "mobile". And it's actually the same in Japan. What initially was called a "keitai denwa" (= portable telephone) is now just called a "keitai" (= portable). Those names are not too bad, although they, of course, are rather imprecise. (And one also has to get used to, and accept, that adjectives are used as nouns ...)
Yes, the portable which has become less portable over the years!   |
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