My list of announced and most impactful products of this century: 1. iPhone 2. Bitcoin 3. Optimus 4. Ethereum 5. Starship 6. Model S 7. Oculus VR Am I missing something? How does the order look?
Would swap Optimus for BD Atlas. Oculus is also a weird one, has impact been larger than, say, ChatGPT?
In terms of global impact, Android operating system probably should be No. 1 or No. 2.
has to be some medical shit in there too don't you think? i dunno what tho. human genome project? bluetooth was 2000. that's a neat one.
Starlink, no question. Still wildly underrated. And Oculus has a lot left to prove IMO.
AI will make those things look like sandbox toys compared to whats coming.
Tech advancement is going to be so rapid in the next few decades that I highly doubt these products will make top 10 of the century
cloud storage / computing? raspberry pi ? youre gunna need a new list and some kind of voting tournament haha
PS2 (March 2000) — accelerated gaming like nothing else before it
Too early to talk about the century, no? But for the last 20 yrs, my top 5 would be: 1. iPhone & Appstore (introduced by Google, adopted by Apple) 2. mRNA vaccines 3. Bitcoin & Ethereum 4. Human Genome Project (not a "product") 5. Model S Others things could make it to the list in the next 10 yrs - chatGpt, CRISPR
Graphics Cards - The gaming industry provided efficient matrix multiplication in hardware which made inadvertently made brute force (a.k.a Machine Learning) a viable solution to problems. Arguable started in the late 90s though.
CAR-T cell therapy for using the human immune system to fight cancer https://youtu.be/Mt5C5fhuU_0
mRNA vaccines - irrespective of how you feel the government handled the science: they are a landmark change in vaccine development/production. Covid was a case of a beta product deployed to production. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/
Surprised nobody casted Uber yet, would that have been replaced by something else?
Alpha Tensor may be the first instance of an AI that can improve its own efficiency: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/discovering-novel-algorithms-with-alphatensor
Not exactly a “product”, but revolutionary on the science front: Gravitational Wave Observatories: A completely new medium to observe the universe with: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
Here’s a 🌶️🌶️ Seattle-flavored take. Web2 would not have happened without AWS
Event Horizon Telescope: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-reveal-first-image-black-hole-heart-our-galaxy Again not a “product” but demonstrate the capabilities of a “distributed” telescope. Combining these techniques with cheap space launches (courtesy spacex): you get powerful telescopes.
Wouldn’t expect you to think of it … but the redesign and introduction of menstrual cups (like Diva Cup) globally … the sales are booming … especially after the pandemic … 😉
I will probably get sh*t for this but Alexa / Echo. First time voice to API just worked and then got embedded everywhere. Reignited “smart homes”.
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