EST 391 Lecture 1: EST391
22 Oct 2018
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Top ten engineering achievements of the 20th century. 1908 - tesla envisioned a watch sized device to communicate with people anywhere in the world. 1930 - wells described a world brain - platform for human knowledge. 1940s - bush described a machine to collect humanities creations and memories. Air and water in many regions is measurably cleaner. New forms of commerce and collective action. In the past 10 years the technology enabled targeting a wider group through communications. Have more information stored than some of the governments do. Monitor and combine previously incommensurable info -> convergence between physical biological and digital. Allows you to do a trend analysis. Passports are linked to data via fingerprints and iris scans. Smartphones and computers that use fingerprints instead of passcodes. Allow people to participate who might otherwise not been able to. With cars, tech change also may lower the number of total cars on the road ->
