Rise of Technology

As my focus area is technology of the 20th century I shall write about that in the next few lines. It all started due to the continuing industrialization and expanding trade. Many significant changes of the 20th century were mainly economic and technological in nature. Inventions such as the light bulb, the automobile, the telephone in the late 1800s, followed by supertankers, radio, television, computers, the Internet, etc, all affected the quality of life. This development brought to huge changes in everyday life. The automobile largely increased the mobility of people, computer games, and the Internet became the new form of entertainment, medicine has also greatly developed in the last century such as the antibiotics. Also the fields of energy, natural resources and the environment developed, such as fossil sources, and nuclear power. Science has probably developed the most in the last century. In astronomy, a much better understanding of the evolution of the Universe was achieved; the Big Bang theory was proposed and proven. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, greatly expanded our understanding of the Universe and brought brilliant images to TV and computer screens around the world. The Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the development of the airplane, and more. Communications and information technology, transportation technology, and medical advances have all radically altered daily lives.

Go here to see the time line of technological inventions of the 20th century: http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth.htm