Ten years ago life was not as easy as today, more precisely daily life. I am not sure that with all the new great services & products which have been created since ten years, we are more happy now, but I am sure that many things are easier. If you look at the Top published by Pcmag.com, you realize that 100 times per day we use these products and services, that most of us would not have even imagined ten years ago.
Among this 10 great services, product and technologies, there are three kind of improvements and innovation :
1 - Things you did before but that you can do now more easily or more practically.
Ths is the case for the Ipod, Tivo and the Imac. Before them you had the possibility to record music and to listen to it wherever you want, you had the possibility to record TV program, and you had computers. But each of these objects make things deeper and smarter. Now you can have almost all the music you want in a very thin product, you can skip adds and record long in advance, you can surf the internet, edit photos and videos, even if you are totally techno averse. These products enable you to do more in an easier way : that should always be the case with technological innovation!
2 - Things with which other major innovations would be useless.
This is the case of Google, Wifi and broadband internet access. With them you can use fully all the resources of the internet, in all kind of situation. Without them the Internet would still be what it was 10 years ago and not that ubiquitous technology we know : a kind of car without gas.
3 - Things totally new and whose usage was totally unpredictable 10 years ago.
This is the case of Facebook and the GPS. Ten years ago, nobody could have forecast them. Will there be so disruptive innovation in the next ten years?
You have the possibility to create your own ranking very easily and add more innovation if you think PC mag has missed a major breakthrough : here!
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