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How Did We Get Here - A Brief History of Technology, Data, and Analytics

The slideshare examines the last 50 years of technology, data, and analytics. It explores its impact on our personal and professional lives.

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How Did We Get Here - A Brief History of Technology, Data, and Analytics

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  1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY, DATA, AND ANALYTICS By: Stan Phelps

  2. 100 YEARS AGO THE STEAM ENGINE AND ELECTRICITY RADICALLY CHANGED THE FIRST MACHINE AGE.

  3. W E ’ V E N O W R E A C H E D A N O T H E R I N F L E C T I O N P O I N T INFLECTION POINT A TIME WHERE BUSINESS CAN LEVERAGE THE ADVANCES IN COMPUTER PROCESSING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND NETWORKED COMMUNICATION…THE SECOND MACHINE AGE.

  4. AN INFLECTION POINT LET’S LOOK AT THE PAST 50+ YEARS TO SEE HOW WE’VE ARRIVED HERE FROM THE BOOK BLUE GOLDFISH

  5. 1961 NOYCE KILBY THE SILICON CHIP WAS INVENTED BY TWO AMERICAN ENGINEERS, JACK KILBY AND ROBERT NOYCE.

  6. 1961 INTEL FOUNDER NOYCE WAS BASED IN PALO ALTO AND FAVORED SILICON FOR THE SEMICONDUCTOR. HE PUT THE SILICON IN SILICON VALLEY.

  7. 1964 ROGER EASTON STARTS EXPERIMENTING WITH A WAY TO TRACK SPUTNIK AND IT LEADS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GPS.

  8. 1967 GRAD STUDENT JAMES GOODNIGHT JOINS A PROJECT AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE TO CREATE A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM (SAS) FOR UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS.

  9. 1969 NEIL ARMSTRONG BECOMES THE FIRST MAN TO STEP ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE MOON.

  10. 1969 THE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY NETWORK (ARPANET) IS LAUNCHED. J.C.R. LICKLIDER’S IDEA OF AN INTERGALACTIC COMPUTER NETWORK STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE.

  11. 1970 GORDON MOORE COINS “MOORE’S LAW” BY STATING THAT COMPUTING PROCESSOR SPEEDS AND COMPUTER POWER WILL DOUBLE EVERY TWO YEARS. IT DOES FOR THE NEXT 40 YEARS.

  12. 1973 THE XEROX ALTO PERSONAL COMPUTER IS DEVELOPED AT XEROX PARC. THE FIRST WITH A MOUSE DRIVEN GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE.

  13. 1973 THE FIRST MOBILE CALL IS MADE. MOTOROLA’S MARTIN COOPER CALLS A RIVAL PHONE COMPANY AND INFORMS THEM HE IS SPEAKING VIA MOBILE.

  14. 1975 STEVE SASSON, A 24 YEAR OLD ENGINEER AT KODAK, INVENTS THE PROCESS TO MAKE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

  15. 1975 STEVE JOBS AND STEVE WOZNIAK LAUNCH APPLE I. A KIT COMPUTER, IT REQUIRES AN ADDITIONAL KEYBOARD AND POWER SUPPLY.

  16. 1978 DAN BRICKLIN AND BOB FRANKSTON INTRODUCE VISICALC. DAN BRICKLIN AND BOB FRANKSTON INTRODUCE THE FIRST ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET CALLED VISICALC, TURNING THE PERSONAL COMPUTER INTO A USEFUL BUSINESS TOOL THE FIRST ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET, IT TURNED THE PERSONAL COMPUTER INTO A USEFUL BUSINESS TOOL.

  17. 1982 THE FIRST THING (AS IN IOT) CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET WAS A COKE MACHINE AT CARNEGIE MELLON.

  18. 1983 ON A TRIP TO CATALINA ISLAND, FIVE MARKETERS CONCEIVE AN ELECTRONIC ALTERNATIVE AT POINT OF SALE THAT WOULD TRANSFORM THE RETAIL LANDSCAPE.

  19. 1983 MOTOROLA RELEASES THE FIRST COMMERCIAL MOBILE PHONE. IT COSTS NEARLY $4,000.

  20. 1989 TIM BERNERS-LEE OF CERN INVENTS THE WORLD WIDE WEB. THE FIRST WEBSITE AT CERN WAS DEDICATED TO THE PROJECT ITSELF.

  21. 1990 QUANTUM COMPUTER SERVICES INTRODUCES PROMENADE, AN ONLINE SERVICE FOR THE IBM PS/1. THE COMPANY EVENTUALLY BECOMES AMERICAN ONLINE (AOL)

  22. 1991 LINUS TORVALDS, A STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, INVENTS LINUX, A COMPLETELY FREE OPEN SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEM.

  23. 1992 NEIL PAPWORTH, A 22 YEAR OLD TEST ENGINEER SENDS THE FIRST TEXT MESSAGE. IT READ “MERRY CHRISTMAS.”

  24. 1993 CERN PUT AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE WWW SOFTWARE INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN WITH AN OPEN LICENSE. THE WEB FLOURISHES.

  25. 1994 KATIE COURIC AND BRYANT GUMBEL INFAMOUSLY STUMBLE WHEN SEEING AN EMAIL ADDRESS. GUMBEL ASKS, “WHAT IS THE INTERNET ANYWAY?”

  26. 1994 JEFF BEZOS STARTS CADABRA. ONE YEAR LATER HE CHANGES THE NAME TO AMAZON WHEN A LAWYER MISHEARD THE ORIGINAL NAME AS CADAVER.

  27. 1995 PIERRE OMIDYAR AUCTIONS OFF A SINGLE BROKEN LASER POINTER ON A SITE HE DEVELOPED. TO HIS SURPRISE IT SELLS FOR $14.83. THE ONLINE AUCTION SITE WAS SOON RENAMED EBAY. EBAY WAS SHORT FOR ECHO BAY, THE NAME OF OMIDYAR’S CONSULTING FIRM.

  28. 1995 GOOGLE BEGINS AS A RESEARCH PROJECT BY LARRY PAGE AND SERGEY BRIN. BOTH ARE PHD STUDENTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

  29. 1999 KEVIN ASHTON COINS THE TERM "INTERNET OF THINGS" WHILE WORKING AT AUTO-ID LABS.

  30. 1999 ORACLE EXECTIVE MARC BENIOFF INVITES THREE FRIENDS TO HEAR A BUSINESS IDEA. IT GETS A LUKEWARM RESPONSE AT BEST. DAVE MOELLENHOFF DOESN’T SUGARCOAT IT, “YOU’RE AN IDIOT, THIS IS NEVER GOING TO WORK.” THE GROUP PRESSES ON AND LAUNCHES SALESFORCE.

  31. 2000 CONFINITY AND X.COM MERGE TO SYNC WITH THE NAME OF ITS PRODUCT… PAYPAL.

  32. 2000 THE US GOVERNMENT STOPS INTENTIONALLY DEGRADING GPS SIGNALS, NOW MAKING THEM 10 TIMES MORE ACCURATE.

  33. 2001 A FREE USER-GENERATED ENCYCLOPEDIA CALLED W I K I P E D I A C O M E S O N L I N E A N D B E C O M E S T H E REFERENCE SITE OF CHOICE FOR INTERNET USERS.

  34. 2002 DOUG CUTTING AND MIKE CAFARELLA CREATE THE UNDERLYING FILE SYSTEMS AND PROCESSING FRAMEWORK THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME HADOOP.

  35. 2002 AMAZON LAUNCHES AMAZON WEB SERVICES, A SUITE OF CLOUD BASED SERVICES THAT INCLUDE STORAGE AND COMPUTATION.

  36. 2003 500 MILLION DEVICES ARE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET. ONE DEVICE FOR EVERY 12 PEOPLE ON THE PLANET.

  37. 2003 SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE THEY HAVE SEQUENCED THE ENTIRE HUMAN GENOME TWO YEARS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. THE 13-YEAR PROJECT SET OUT TO IDENTIFY THE 20,000 TO 25,000 GENES IN HUMAN DNA.

  38. 2003 CHRIS STOLTE AND PAT HANRAHAN INVENT A TECHNOLOGY CALLED VIZQL. IT MAKES DATABASES AND SPREADSHEETS UNDERSTANDABLE. DATA VISUALIZATION AND FAST ANALYTICS BECOME THE BASIS FOR FOUNDING TABLEAU.

  39. 2004 19-YEAR OLD HARVARD SOPHOMORE NAMED MARK ZUCKERBERG LAUNCHES THEFACEBOOK.COM FROM HIS DORM ROOM STARTS THEFACEBOOK.COM FROM HIS DORM ROOM. 19 YEAR OLD HARVARD SOPHOMORE MARK ZUCKERBERG

  40. 2005 YOUTUBE IS FOUNDED. THE IDEA WAS BORN AT A DINNER PARTY IN SAN FRANCISCO AND WAS INSPIRED BY A TSUNAMI AND JANET JACKSON’S WARDROBE MALFUNCTION.

  41. 2006 DOUG CUTTING BEGINS WORKING AT YAHOO. THEY SPIN OUT THE STORAGE AND PROCESSING PART OF NUTCH TO CREATE HADOOP. WHY HADOOP? IT WAS NAMED AFTER CUTTING’S SON’S STUFFED ELEPHANT.

  42. 2006 JACK DORSEY SEND THE FIRST MESSAGE ON TWITTER ON 3/21/06. IT READ, “JUST SETTING UP MY TWTTR.”

  43. 2007 WAZE IS FOUNDED. THE ISRAELI COMPANY DEVELOPS A FREE MAPPING AND TURN-BY-TURN NAVIGATION APP FOR IOS AND ANDROID DEVICES.

  44. 2007 TOM PRESTON-WERNER CREATES A WEBSITE THAT ACTS AS A HUB FOR CODERS TO SHARE THEIR GIT REPOSITORIES. MORE THAN 12 MILLION DEVELOPERS CONTRIBUTE TO OVER 31 MILLION PROJECTS BY USING THIS COLLABORATIVE WORKFLOW.

  45. 2007 NAMED AFTER ITS FOUNDER, IBM WATSON IS BORN

  46. 2008 THE ONE BILLIONTH PERSONAL COMPUTER IS SOLD

  47. 2009 USAA, A PRIVATELY HELD BANK AND INSURANCE COMPANY, BECOMES THE FIRST COMPANY TO OFFER MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT.

  48. 2011 IBM’S WATSON APPEARS ON JEOPARDY AND… WINS.

  49. 2011 THE OXFORD DICTIONARY ADDED THE COMMON TEXTING ACRONYM LOL (LAUGH OUT LOUD) TO ITS OFFICIAL LISTINGS.

  50. 2013 OUT OF THE WORLD’S SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE, SIX BILLION HAVE ACCESS TO MOBILE PHONES. ONLY 4.5 BILLION HAVE ACCESS TO WORKING TOILETS.

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