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10 BCE
Knapping/ Early Technology
Using rocks to shape other rocks into tools. Was done in the early days of humans. -
1440
Printing Press
The creation of the printing press allowed for the widespread reading of the Bible by people outside the clergy which allowed for people like Martin Luther to make their own opinions on scripture. -
War Technology
War time causes for lots of inventions in technology and the world in general. I threw this year up here as a reference point however both world wars saw an increase in technology. Machine guns are an example of technology that was invented that made the former charging across the field method obsolete. -
Siri/Alexa
Siri and Alexa are effectively verbal assistants that can respond to most if not all simple command, as well as search the internet and call people. -
Self Driving Car
Self driving cars are something that has been the topic of a lot of conversations however they are not as super far off as some may seem. Companies like Tesla already have cars that can do it and there are plenty of start up companies that are doing work to make the lasers and therefore self driving aspect more reliable.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now-have-full-self-driving-hardware -
Super Suits
Movies like Iron Man and the Avengers and the following never ending span of movies bring about an interesting idea. Are the super suits that are worn by these guys actually plausible in life in the future and based off of research I have done it looks like they are already attempting it so who knows maybe in the future we will have avengers still people in the world.
https://phys.org/news/2016-04-iron-science.html