Look How Far We've Come, High-tech Then & Now

The Evolution of TechnologyThe past twenty years has seen a revolution in the research industry as new advances and discoveries have made many existing products in essence obsolete.

Fax machines have as well seen their use fall considerably in recent years as email and, more recently, cloud computing have become more common. Thanks to services like Google Docs and DropBox, platforms that allow the seamless storage and sharing of files, fax machines have become needlessly expensive and archaic.

Kids everywhere will tell you about the amazing advances in video game innovation over the past thirty years. The years of the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo Entertainment System are long gone, replaced with the life-like graphics of the PS3 and the XBox360. As so then, products like the Wii and Kinect have taken video games to the then level with motion-captured gameplay.

The Sony Walkman

The Sony Walkman, once the king of portable music, has as well gone the way of the Atari 2600, replaced by digital MP3s and the Apple iPod, a sleek device that can store the equivalent of thousands of cassettes.