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I said "20 years", not "less than a decade". When has there been some truly "giant shift" Some examples: Cars replaced horses. Email replaced let
by TekMol 4y ago
I said "20 years", not "less than a decade".
When has there been some truly "giant shift"
Some examples:
Cars replaced horses.
Email replaced letters.
Phones replaced desktops.
Phones replaced cameras.
Websites replaced newspapers, TV and radio.
- flohofwoe 4y agoThese aren't exactly giant shifts though, just incremental progress. Maybe with the exception of cars vs horses, but this shift took at least half a century and two disruptive world wars happened in that time. For the other things, the enabling technologies were microchips and the internet, and those also took their time to grow.
- TekMol 4y agoIf the web was not a giant shift, then I don't know what is. If mobile was not a giant shift, then I don't know what is. The web created a searchable, worldwide instant knowledge base in which mankind shares what it knows. Mobile makes everyone connected to everybody else, where ever they are. For all of these examples, the time going from "most people are aware of it" to "most people use it" was less than 20 years. Example: Most people in developed countries started to become aware of email in the 90s. In the 2010s most people had an email. Probably even in the 2000s already.
- flohofwoe 4y agoThese were mostly 'predictable' consequences of miniaturization in electronics and connecting computers into networks which had been happening since the late 1940s and the 1960s. And those idea didn't come out of nowhere either, science fiction invented most of those concepts long before they could be technically realised (see Star Trek's communicators).