Comm 352 Blog 4: The Growth of Technology

In the last 50 or so years technology has evolved and it is truely remarkable when you look at it. The picture above displays one of the very first supercomputers ever created, a computer whose power is nowhere near as strong as the very MAC and Windows computers we use today. A computer whose strength isn't even as great as the mobile devices we use and whose capabilities have skyrocketed in such a ridiculous amount of time. Its funny when you look at how 50 years ago bigger schools would have computers like these kept on campus for maybe one student to access, and that one student having to be someone exceptionally trained in that department. Nowadays we take a room like that and can fit 22 computers inside of it for better efficient use by all students. The evolution of the technology has lead to such great creations as e-mail that can be used on a simple computer and the ability to process so much data at once when the concept of memory in Gigabites wasn't even possible 30 years ago, we've now hit the age where you the concept of "too much data" and "too much memory" don't exist. You even look at things like Video Games. Things for the Super Nintendo that were considered "high end" as recent as 1994 can now be played with ease on a cell phone or even a low-end graphics card. Overall, the growth of technology has been impressive and a beautiful thing to behold especially when you consider just how people viewed computers as recent as even 20 years ago. Here is a video from 1995 that discusses the future of the computers and Internet that we use in our every day life.