Space In only 66 years. Technology heats up. What is technology like to you?

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I heard on TV the that Wright Brothers had the first successful powered flight on December 17, 1903, and on July 29,1969, man landed on the moon. That took only 66 years. That's a staggering statistic. It took us thousands of years to get us a few feet off the ground, and in 66 years, we're walking on the moon. I'm a Civil War Nut, I've been to a lot of "living history" events., where things are how they were in the 1860s- horses, hoop skirts, one shot guns, muscle power. Yet within 30+years , we have electricity, automobiles, elevators, phones, high rise buildings- the 20th Century. I heard once that the pace of technology was speeding up, faster and faster. When we were kids, did you ever think you'd have this thing in your home, where you could communicate with anyone on the planet? Did you ever think kids would have their own debit cards?
We lived through this new tech age. I guess I'm blown away by that 66 year thing, and the rapid change in technology. Is there something in technology that blows you away?
 

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OMG, so much!

Home-security systems, security cameras, solar panels on roofs, geothermal heating/cooling, auto-darkening glass for homes/vehicles, space telescopes that can see billions of light years back in time, electric cars along with other electric forms of transportation...
 
Technology is expanding at a phenomonal rate!
I'm watching the "splash down" right this minute! So exciting!
 

I look at technology as I am watching the splashdown of our astronauts as the vessel was at 3,500 degrees F and going 17,500 mph in our atmosphere. What I am watching will be as laughable in 100 years as the old films of early attempts to make planes fly we see today. Technological advances are exponential so it only gets more exciting with every tick of the clock.
 
I watched the launch, watched the undocking yesterday and Just now finished watching from the parachute deployment To the successful retrieval of the capsule & the Astronauts being taken out in apparently good condition. Science evolves and builds on itself, new supplants old, and sometimes old is revived with new results.
Very reassuring to me at this time, that all those brilliant, dedicated people have been going intensely about their work.
 
The fact is, we can be tracked every minute of the day.... :unsure:

I appreciate computers. I still work, and I enter data on computers.... I can't imagine putting all that information on paper forms and having to change everything for just one little number change. :geek:

The first computer I used was in 1974. It was as big as as a room... and probably had less processing capability than my cell phone today. I don't wear a watch today because in 1974, if you wore a watch, it was demagnetized by the computer. Got used to not wearing one and never have started wearing one again. If that life changing? :ROFLMAO:
 
Yes the first IBM computer I ever worked with was also as big as a small room.. this was 1970 working in an office which produced Punch cards in a Punch tape typing pool
 
Yes, me too Ellen Maris & Hollydolly! In the 70s my late ExH was doing pioneering programming work in huge mainframe computers at a Technical University, & it kind if rubbed off on me. Had to put the statistical data for my first master’s degree onto punch cards to go into a mainframe, and one bad keystroke & had to do the whole batch over.
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I'm blown away by the fact that my phone has more computing power than they had on the first moon shot in 1969. I'm blown away that my phone can give me turn by turn directions and real-time traffic information while we're on the road.
 
CarolfromTX said:
I'm blown away by the fact that my phone has more computing power than they had on the first moon shot in 1969. I'm blown away that my phone can give me turn by turn directions and real-time traffic information while we're on the road.
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..and better pictures ( at least on my Iphone)...than most middle priced digital cameras
 
Advancements in medical technology are mind-blowing, too. There was a time when any kind of heart defect represented a death sentence, and the heart was considered a "forbidden temple;" now doctors can discern and correct heart defects in pre-born children! Certain surgeries can be performed robotically with smaller incisions and greater precision than would be humanly possible. Many people are living longer and with a higher quality of life than would have been possible even in the earlier 20th century...
 
I am still here and going strong, heart operation put me back on my feet.
The advancement in medical fields has been incredible and going faster.
Is it too fast? Just a thought...
 
In the 70's, I was a mainframe engineer working at IBM. The machines were water cooled and were nearly the size of a small house. Yes, it's pretty handy having a laptop that I can type this on - and find out and bit of information that I want.
BUT, I fear that we are becoming too dependant on technology and starting to lack basic skills.

Personally, I try to avoid any technology that I don't need. No iPhones, no sat nav, no Alexa, no Hive or anything of the sort.
While I can live happily without them, I will. It really annoys me that I can't buy a new car that doesn't resemble a computer store on wheels - maybe I should get a good classic car!
 
All that is amazing of course. Technology has been on a march, strutting the globe, showing off it's stuff. However, I'd be satisified with a decent razor that would stay sharp and last a while.
 
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