Evolution of Technology

Our lives are now controlled by technology. Without our computers, tablets, and smartphones, we can't seem to function. Many individuals today find it impossible to envisage their lives without technology due to the market's explosive growth in such a short amount of time.

How are People changing along with Technology?

• Every technology was created for a specific reason. As an illustration, search engines were created to filter through the massive volumes of web data.

• Every time a technology is improved, it is combined with antecedent ones to create a new product that is superior to the antecedent. Technology becomes the vital tool it is now the more frequently this happens.

Past:

• In the 1990s, the Internet was a new commodity that many, but not all, households and businesses possessed. The sound of the painfully slow dial-up signal connecting to the Internet is a not-so-fond memory for those who lived at the time. 

• Websites evolved alongside it. Everyone suddenly had a Geocities or Tripod website dedicated to themselves. This is when the consumer blogging craze began to take hold.

• It gradually became easier to share information. People began emailing documents or storing large files on USB drives instead of handing over a floppy disc or CD-ROM.

Present:

• Businesses have developed web applications that address typical customer needs as a result of this anytime/anywhere access to the Internet. These programmes are capable of providing enormous volumes of information with the push of a button and tracking food portions.

• Additionally, face-to-face interactions are simpler. Geographical constraints that traditionally made communication difficult have been eliminated as more individuals use web/video conferencing online. Instead, businesses can interact with customers in a more personal way, people can converse with one another in person without having to make expensive trip arrangements, and it is quicker and simpler to contact people all over the world.

• With so many new technologies influencing how individuals obtain information and interact with one another, the trajectory of technological advancements appears positive.

Future:

• When more current technologies are merged and improved upon, future technology will offer greater opportunities. That will be advantageous for businesses as well as customers.

• Smart gadgets, like smartphones and tablets, will continue to become more interoperable. These devices will automatically exchange data, requiring less human involvement.

• Increasingly consumers and companies will store all of their data online rather than on a single device and use the cloud for business operations.

• When technology develops further, the world will change even more, giving rise to new social structures and habits.

Ages of Evolution of Technology

Premechanical, Mechanical, Electromechanical, and Electronic are the four stages of technological evolution (a material object produced by the application of mental and physical effort to nature in order to attain some value).

Premechanical

• The earliest period of information technology is the pre-mechanical one. 

• When people initially tried to communicate, they tried using language or plain pictorial drawings called petroglyphs, which were typically carved in the rock.

•  The Phoenician alphabet was one of the first alphabets to be created. 

Mechanical

• We first begin to notice similarities between our modern technology and its forebears during the mechanical age. 

• There have been innovations like the slide rule. 

Electro-Mechanical

• Finally, several technologies that mimic our current technology are within reach. The period from 1840 to 1940 is known as the electromechanical age. 

• These mark the start of communications. For example, the Telegraph, Morse code, the Telephone and the First Radio was created in this time period.

•  These were all very important new technologies that helped the information technology industry advance significantly.

Electronic

• The electronic age is the time frame from 1940 to the present.

• The first digital high-speed computer that could be customised to handle a range of computing problems was the ENIAC. It used vacuum tubes for the majority of its calculations.

• Below is a description of the four main computing categories.

• Punch cards and vacuum tubes were popular throughout the first period.

• In the second generation, vacuum tubes were replaced by transistors, punch cards by magnetic tape, and spinning magnetic drums by magnetic tape.

• Transistors were replaced by integrated circuits in the third generation, and magnetic tape was become a part of every computer. The fourth model, the most modern, introduced Processors (central processing units).