Our modern day technology has advanced very rapidly, right from the invention of the wheel thousands of years ago to the way we live our today lifestyles is an incredible transformation. Technology that was very cool a few decades ago is classified as obsolete right now, from travel, communication, learning, smart homes, working and everything else is greatly advanced
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We should not overlook the possibility that life processes might have evolved in different ways on other planets. A functional genetic system, capable of accumulating and replicating changes and thus of adaptation and evolution, could theoretically evolve from molecules other than carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen in a different environment. Silicon, like carbon, needs […]
Storytellers since the time of the ancient Greeks have enjoyed imagining that people are capable of breaking the laws of nature and gaining fantastic strength or powers. They have also imagined amazing machines and mythical figures with magical abilities. In a sense, the spirit of discovery expressed in the scientific and industrial ages-and in new
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Petroleum-crude oil-and its products have been in use for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians used pitch, a thick, sticky form of petroleum, to coat mummies as they prepared them for burial. Ancient Babylonians used pitch to build walls and pave streets. Yet it took two inventions of the 1800s-the kerosene lamp and, to a much
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Historians consider the Industrial Revolution to be one of the two most important changes that have taken place in the history of the world. Just as the start of agriculture did 10,000 years ago, the Industrial Revolution marks a turning point in history. The Industrial Revolution is, of course, a more recent change. Just 300
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The process of determining a vehicle’s position and directing its movement is called navigation. The word navigation comes from two Latin words-navis, meaning “ship,” and agere, meaning “to drive.” The explorers of the 1500s sailed with only a few simple technological aids to guide them. However, with these, along with the stars and the Sun,
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Centuries in the future, when archaeologists excavate the buried ruins of a 20-story office building from our civilization, they will undoubtedly discover the remains of countless computer terminals. What might such an archaeological excavation reveal about us and the civilization in which we lived? What tools will the archaeologists use to study the artifacts of
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Stone arches, cement, highways, aqueducts, the waterwheel, the sailing ship, the compass-each of these technological innovations was made by people in the ancient world. The oldest technology of which evidence survives-dating back to the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age-is that of making stone tools. Early tool makers chipped pieces or flakes
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In this high tech world, there is nothing you can hide ma-friend, spying has spiraled out of control, neighbors spy on each other’s compound, there is nothing to hide from others, everything is exposed out there for the world to see, whatever way you try to hide your secrets, the spy master, the internet with
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Its technology that’s helping law enforcers perform their duties, without it criminal investigators wouldn’t be as proud as they are now, its technology that’s helping merchants conduct their trade, it drives commerce, its technology that’s boosting manufacturing, heavy industries, travel, communication, education, agriculture, healthcare, everything, there is not a thing man can do today without
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Technology is spreading far and wide to the farthest locations of the globe, even in the remotest parts of the world, you will find mobile communication and the internet, I saw some Tuareg herders searching for a network in the Sahara desert and Amazonian forest dwellers climbing tall trees to catch a network. I saw
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