Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
LECTURE L02EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY
How does technology evolve?
Evolution of technology is closelylinked with the evolution of mankind
Use of technology have been with mankindfor millions of years
Charles Darwin publishedOn The Origin of Species in 1852
Evolutionary Process
Each generation breeds the next generation, becomes and input for the next
Natural selection
Survival of the fittest
Samuel Butler published 1859
a letter to the editor of the Press
in New Zealand, called “Darwin among the
Machines”
Kingdom of the machines
Evolutionary Process
Kevin Kelly: The Seventh Kingdom
Kevin Kelly’s The 7th Kingdom
Is technology something new?
Is this technology?
All technology was once new
You can only see the evolution by looking back
All technology was once new
?
All technology was once new
And you should know it will change into the future
All technology was once new
Technology invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century
Lived in Germany
Was blacksmith, goldsmith and merchant
Gutenberg’s printing press
Movable type made of wood, pressed with ink using a screw
Printed 42 lines
Technology in the 15th century
Bartolomeo Cristofori 1655-1731
Nocturne Op. 9 No 2
Frédéric Chopin1810-1849
Johann Sebastian Bach would only in 1747 approve the piano
We think it is something new
New technology is emotional
Technology
Techne is greek for art or skillLogos is greek for word, speech
Technology
First used by Aristotle
The word “technology”was used in 1801 byJohann Beckmann (1739-1811), a German scientific author and teacher
The Effects of Good Government, a fresco in the City Hall of Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338.
Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants
Definition of Technology
Process by which an organisation transforms labor, capital, material, and information into products and services of greater values
Technology
The value you get out of a product for which you have paid some cost
Product Performance
31977 Apple II $1,298 4.000 bytes memory Motorola 6502 1MHz
2007 iMac 17-inch $1,199 1.000.000.000 bytes memory Intel 2.0GHz
2000 2010
iMac iPhoneiMac G3Mac OS 9.0.4 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB MemoryScreen - 786K pixels Storage - 30GB Hard Drive
iPhone 4iOS 4.0 1 Ghz ARM A4 CPU, 512MB MemoryScreen - 614K pixels Storage - 32GB Flash Drive
THE SECOND HALF OF THE CHESSBOARD
Innovation
The change in the technology
ROOMS FAR OUTARE SCIENCE FICTION
EXPONENTIALGROWTH
http://www.bordalierinstitute.com/images/brainEvolution.jpg
Evolution of the human brain
200018001600140012001000800
Com
plex
ity o
f Tec
hnol
ogy
Time
200018001600140012001000800
Com
plex
ity o
f Tec
hnol
ogy
Time
With all the technology in the last 200 years,how was life before that?
What about in the year 79?
Pompeii
Pompeii
The oldest body in history
Next
Exponential World
