Good morning, my name is Jhonatan Pardo. Today I’ll be talking about how technology has evolved
over time and how it has helped humanity thanks to technological advances that has contributed to
a better management and organization of equipments that people use in their daily lives, The list of
technology we rely on every day is long: it includes the vehicles that transport us, the houses we
sleep in, the medication that heals and protects us, the machinery we use for production, the
instruments to produce music and art, and the gadgets we use to communicate with each other.
Now, our focus is on some of the fundamental changes of technological advances, especially in
technologies that got developed very recently and in which innovation is particularly fast.
Since the technology bubble burst back in the two thousands, technology has radically transformed
our societies and our daily lives. From smartphones to social media and healthcare, leading to a
technological revolution.
At the same time, technology became more personal and portable. These changes led to a world in
which technology touches nearly everything we do. Technology has changed major sectors over the
past twenty years, including media, climate action and healthcare. This gives us an insight of how
emerging tech leaders have influenced and responded to these changes.
Vehicles traditionally used fossil fuels and still do, but thanks to the massive growth on
consciousness, companies approached the issue by developing a new source of alternative fuel to
use in vehicles to avoid CO2 pollution on the planet, another example is medicine, treatments and
healthcare were way to different than nowadays. Medicine has advanced and progressed as much to
save lives, back in the days this was almost impossible, but thanks to improvement and research in
studies the medical equipment has been improved and some of them changed. Also, the
entertainment has changed; the way we play video games it’s way different than twenty years ago;
in the past kids played in the streets, had fun running, jumping, they were on the arcades, this
progression was important for the development of imagination and creativity, but now the children
prefer to play with their smart phones, or staying late on their computer or consoles, here we notice
how the evolution of technology affected even the smallest things.
Many of the developments are driven by technological advances. Technological change was
necessary to achieve a higher life expectancy around the world. And this is what provoked studies
and information to growth in such a large scale – and thereby the decline of poverty – possible. In
this sense, much of what I’m presenting is the progression of technology over time and how it
improved the quality of life in many ways.
Technological change is obviously not necessarily positive. Some of the greatest risks of humanity
that is facing are due to technological innovation.
The past 20 years have greatly shaped how and where we consume media. In the early two
thousands, many technological firms were still focused on expanding communication for work
through advanced bandwidth for video streaming and other media consumption that is common
today.
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