Top 10 Technological Advancements that Changed the World

In this post, I will be describing what I believe are the top ten technological advancements that changed the world. 

My criteria for choosing them:

• Based on mainly what we use most today and where they came from/what they’re made of/what they use
• All these inventions shape our everyday lives, and are all inventions our society can’t live without

Writing Utensils

• Earliest methods of recording and maintaining information

Electric circuits

• Most of the modern world runs on electricity

Plumbing

• We don’t have odorous, infectious cities (we don’t need to have another Thames River and the Great Stink crisis)
• We can’t live without running water (showers, water for food)

Turing’s Machine

• One of the first computational devices in this level of processing
• Helps us understand the logic behind computers 

Man-made satellites

• Helps us get an accurate picture of the place we live in and how the earth and the space around it is. 

Google search

• Almost instantaneous information about almost anything
• One of the reasons we’re called the information age

Camera

• Accurate method of recording the present for the future to view as past (for personal memory or for historical analysis)

Mobile Devices

• Convenient and portable method of communication
• Many practical uses such as navigation, fast/emergency calls, etc.

Touch screen

• An important part of modern technology (smart phones, tablets, Windows 8 computers)
• Makes teaching, taking notes, and digital arts convenient. 

Glass

• The last 3 slides all showed some usage of glass
• Used in many everyday instances (windows, mirrors, eye glasses, drinking glasses, etc.)

I'll go into more detail about a couple of these in my video: 

Introduction

Hello!

My name is Grace Park, and this is my second year at UC Berkeley. 
I recently switched majors to EECS from bioengineering. 
I still hope to take some bioengineering classes, especially ones like biomedical instrumentation or medical imaging devices. 
But for now, my focus is on learning about computer science.
One of the most interesting classes I'm taking right now is the artificial intelligence class, which I'm really looking forward to. 

In regards to IEOR 190G, I hope that this class will help me have a better grasp of the legal aspects of engineering, since in the real world, just being able to engineer new technologies isn't enough for someone to actually bring these new technologies into the world. As an engineer, I believe that it is really important to thoroughly understand intellectual property and patents, since often legal struggles can be a source of pain for engineers like me. 

So I hope I'll be able to get a lot out of this class, and hopefully it'll have a positive impact on my future.