While there have been huge benefits to society from the digital revolution, especially in terms of the accessibility of information, there are a number of concerns. Expanded powers of communication an ...
Positive aspects include greater interconnectedness, easier communication, and the exposure of information that in the past could have more easily been suppressed by totalitarian regimes. Michio Kaku ...
Underlying the digital revolution was the development of the digital electronic computer, the personal computer, and particularly the microprocessor with its steadily increasing performance (as descri ...
Gramophone record to CD (released 1982) and MP3 (released 1994 for computers only; first MP3 player 1998)Typewriter to printer (1980s to mid-1990s)Analog photography (film photography) to digital phot ...
Origins (1947–1969) In 1947 the transistor was invented, leading the way to more advanced digital computers. In the 1950s and 1960s the military, governments and other organizations had computer syst ...
The underlying technology was invented in the later half of the 19th century, including Babbage's analytical engine and the telegraph. Digital communication became economical for widespread adoption a ...
1980 Cell phone subscribers: 11.2 million Internet users: All Internet users at this time were indexed in a phone book sized directory.1990 Cell phone subscribers: 12.4 million (0.25% of world populat ...
The Agricultural Revolution lead to agricultural cities in the ancient world in the Middle East, Mesoamerica, China, the Indus Valley, Southern Europe and South America.Then the Industrial Revolution ...
The Digital Revolution is the change from analog mechanical and electronic technology to digital technology which began anywhere from the late 1950s to the late 1970s with the adoption and proliferati ...
