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[[Image:1957 driverless cars paleo-future big.jpg|thumb|250px|Newsweek Magazine – | [[Image:1957 driverless cars paleo-future big.jpg|thumb|250px|Newsweek Magazine – Dec. 17, 1956 (click on picture to zoom in)]] | ||
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==Scientific progress== | ==Scientific progress== | ||
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| The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves. | | The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves. | ||
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This vision depicted the great advances in science after 1945. The phrase ëit was headed upí implies that there were more examples of | This vision depicted the great advances in science after 1945. The phrase ëit was headed upí implies that there were more examples of great advancesí in the vision (but they are not described and one would have to wonder, ëwhy notí) but that the leading example was the bubble-topped driverless car | ||
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The vision was first cited in a sermon in 1953 and hence may have been post fact depending on when the driverless car was supposed to have been developed. | The vision was first cited in a sermon in 1953 and hence may have been post fact depending on when the driverless car was supposed to have been developed. | ||
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::*Summit super computer ñ 122.3 thousand million million (1015) floating-point operations per second, 2019 | ::*Summit super computer ñ 122.3 thousand million million (1015) floating-point operations per second, 2019 | ||
The invention of computers has changed the way the world works. Computing has enabled most major technical development of the last 50 years - the Internet, smart phones and space travel. Computers underpin our industry and financial systems. It is the basis of Artificial Intelligence which itself is set to transform the world yet again. Computers reside not only in our pockets and on our desks but are increasingly embedded in the | The invention of computers has changed the way the world works. Computing has enabled most major technical development of the last 50 years - the Internet, smart phones and space travel. Computers underpin our industry and financial systems. It is the basis of Artificial Intelligence which itself is set to transform the world yet again. Computers reside not only in our pockets and on our desks but are increasingly embedded in the artifacts that we purchase. It would be difficult to name an area of human endeavor that is not reliant, today, on computing. | ||
:*'''Communications''' | :*'''Communications''' | ||
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::*The World Wide Web (WWW) 1990 | ::*The World Wide Web (WWW) 1990 | ||
Communications is the glue and the plumbing which allows the interconnection of people, business, information and the Internet of things. Communications includes the hardware that provides the infrastructure and software which provides the logic for the seamless transmission of video, text, speech and hyperlinked information to everyone and everything on the planet. Communications | Communications is the glue and the plumbing which allows the interconnection of people, business, information and the Internet of things. Communications includes the hardware that provides the infrastructure and software which provides the logic for the seamless transmission of video, text, speech and hyperlinked information to everyone and everything on the planet. Communications underpin the seemingly miraculous ability for thousands of people in a city to be browsing the web, playing games, watching movies, sending messages and talking to their friends a continent away all at the same time (and things not getting mixed up!). | ||
:*'''The Space Program''' | :*'''The Space Program''' | ||