Timeline of technological advances:
| Date | Invention |
| 1822 | First computer was created. |
| 1844 | First use of Morse Code. |
| 1876 | First telephone was created. |
| 1877 | First music player was created. |
| 1922 | First radio broadcast. |
| 1936 | First television broadcast. |
| 1948 | The earliest cable systems were born. |
| 1953 | Colour TV arrives. |
| 1960s | First E-Book was created. |
| 1968 | 11.4 million new TV sets are made. |
| 1971 | Adverts go from 60-seconds to 30-seconds in length. |
| 1973 | First mobile phone was created. |
| 1988 | Videocassette recorders take TV viewers away. |
| 1996 | Digital satellite dishes that are only 18 inches in diameter hit the market. |
| 2000 | The year of the Digital Disc - A.K.A. the DVD. |
| 2003 | First DVD video recorder is released. |
| 2005 | Flat screen TVs are very popular. |
| 2006 | Blu-Ray DVDs are released in the middle of the year. |
| 2010 | 3D movies and television sets arrive. |
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Examples of television in:
1948...
1965...
1993...
2012
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Video games are another example of how far technology has come. They are electronic games that involve human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Sometimes you can also interact with other players although this isn't always a good thing due to "trash talk" - when someone is feeling competetive, it is not unusual for them to say abusive or hurtful things to their opponent.
The newspaper article below shows this:
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The world's technology has developed so much because there is much more computing power at our disposal now - this is known as Moore's Law. (Moore's Law is the observation that over the history of computing hardware, the computing power doubles while the devices that provide that power become smaller, approximately ever two years.)
Everything has changed and become more powerful during the digitial age. An example of this is cinemas: 3D cinemas used to be an extremely new thing but now they are common and there are even films that have 4D viewings available, such is the advances of technology.
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(EXTRA: To see a timeline of the history of the television, please look at my next blog post or the following link: http://274093katyanker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/extra-timeline-of-history-of-television.html)
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Websites I used:
http://www.high-techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game
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