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Wikipedia. The best compendium of knowledge in the history of mankind. Google. From a lab project to revolutionize finding information. Youtube. It's now poss
by emmett 17y ago
Wikipedia. The best compendium of knowledge in the history of mankind.
Google. From a lab project to revolutionize finding information.
Youtube. It's now possible to share video with everyone around the world lacking information.
iPhone. Real, useful smartphones are finally here.
And that's just what I thought of off the top of my head, in a minute, from the field I work in. There are thousands of examples everywhere you look. They're just hard to see sometimes, because they're "normal" now.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoIncidentally: * Wikipedia: founded in 2000 using wiki technology developed in the mid-1990s. * Google: founded in 1996, domain registered in 1997, incorporated in 1998.
- michael_nielsen 17y agoWhat you're noticing is that it takes longer than ten years for most technologies to go from their beginnings to ubiquity. Television, radio, automobiles and even antibiotics looked like curiosities within ten years of their discovery. It's hard to think of exceptions - the nuclear bomb is perhaps a good example. Birth control pills are close, although I believe even that took longer than ten years.
- mquander 17y agoI think this is a little disingenuous. If 2020 comes and we're all using high-resolution immersion goggles to do computing, will you point at the Virtual Boy and say it's not new because they did it in the '90s? Google and Wikipedia circa 1998 is a lot different than Google and Wikipedia circa 2010. Think high-resolution searchable 3D maps of more or less the whole world, single point of reference for the majority of human knowledge you would ever think to look up different.