Think about the last hundred years. How much progress has technology made? Let me put this in perspective for you. In 1903 Ford Motor Company was open for business. Henry Ford did not invent the automobile (they had actually been in production since before 1900) but he created a car that was cheap and accessible to the masses, the Model T. This was all before electricity was a modern convenience. Cars and electricity have only been around for a hundred years. Can you imagine your life without cars? (I'm not even going to go into life without electricity, that's just unbelievable) A hundred years ago going some where meant walking to places close by, riding a horse to town, and taking a train if you needed to go anywhere far away. In this day and age you can get anywhere in a matter of minutes and hours. Driving from coast to coast is about a weeks trip. If you think that's uncomfortable, imagine riding a horse. Cars completely changed America. This invention that originally meant to be a play thing for the rich became a necessity in a matter of decades.
Ok next amazing invention that has revolutionized our world. Computers. Computer technology has actually been around for a while. It started with punch card technology (I really have no idea how that works) in the 1800's! It probably wasn't until the 1960's that computers started to get really advanced but even then they filled up the entire room and still used punch card technology. Now look at us! I'm typing this from my laptop which is connected to the internet which connects all of the computers of the world together!!! How awesome is that? I saw a MLIA or something about wanting a jet pack because we lived in the future, but honestly I think our cell phones with text, apps, cameras, calculators, calendars and what ever the heck else are just as good and futuristic. I don't think people in the 60's could even imagine something like an iPhone.
Mistakes have been made through time and companies have gone out of business because of it. But luckily companies continue to build on the mistakes of others and end up making things better, faster, stronger, whatever! Think about Mac's! They are so innovative. People are constantly complaining that a new Mac product comes out every month, but I find it exciting. They are always improving; making things more accessible to all, just like Henry Ford. While thinking about my life relative to computers I realized that I share my birth year with a very special invention, the internet. Me and the Internet are the same age! Happy 19th birthday world wide web! The technology for internet actually came out in the 70's but the world wide web wasn't made accessible to the public until the year I was born, 1992. I asked my dad and he said we got the internet in '96, when I was four years old. I honestly cannot remember a time in my life when we didn't own a computer. When I was maybe 5 or 6 I can remember getting on our old gray mac, starting it up, and opening paint. Then of course I'd scribble all kinds of pretty pictures and waste all of our colored ink by printing a hundred copies. I'd wait a few minutes for the ink to dry and then I'd give them to my Mom. I can't even explain to you how excited I was when I discovered floppy disks. That wasn't even fifteen years ago and since then our technology has practically exploded. Floppy disks are now a joke. Now my Mom can post my pretty pictures on facebook. My printer is wireless and it can print anything I want. I don't even have to be in the same room, or floor. I know this is a crazy tech girl rant, but my mind is seriously bLoWn at how far we've come. I can't wait to see what mistakes we're going to improve on next.