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第一个“无线手机”专利诞生于1908年，并且酝酿了很长一段时间(0G于1945年，1G于1979年在日本推出)，而现代2G数字手机直到1991年才出现。1993年才出现短信，1999年才出现互联网接入。

几乎是现代3D计算机图形学中所有重要的东西。射线追踪(在计算图形意义上)是从Whitted 1980年的论文开始的。行军立方体('87)是从3D数据中提取等值面的标准方法。

1980年1月2日我开始编程。我试着思考在我的职业生涯中有哪些重大的新发明。我很难想出一个。大多数我认为重要的东西实际上是在1980年之前发明的，但直到1980年之后才被广泛采用或改进。

Graphical User Interface. Fast processing. Large memory (I paid $200.00 for 16k in 1980). Small sizes - cell phones, pocket pc's, iPhones, Netbooks. Large storage capacities. (I've gone from carrying a large 90k floppy to an 8 gig usb thumb drive. Multiple processors. (Almost all my computers have more than one now, software struggles to keep them busy). Standard interfaces (like USB) to easily attach hardware peripherals. Multiple Touch displays. Network connectivity - leading to the mid 90's internet explosion. IDE's with Intellisense and incremental compiling.

虽然硬件有了巨大的进步，但软件行业一直在努力跟上。我们比1980年领先了几光年，但大多数改进都是改进，而不是发明。自1980年以来，我们一直忙于应用技术进步，而不是发明创造。就其本身而言，这些渐进式的发明大多不重要或不强大，但当你回顾过去29年，它们相当强大。

我们可能需要接受渐进式的改进并引导它们。我相信真正原创的想法可能会来自很少接触计算机的人，而且他们越来越难找到。

至于编程概念，IoC /依赖注入在1988年，根在1983年。福勒在他的Bliki上对这个概念的历史做了一些注释。

上世纪八十年代初，施乐帕洛阿尔托研究中心对计算机蠕虫进行了研究。

摘自John Shoch和Jon Hupp的“蠕虫”程序——分布式计算的早期经验”(ACM通讯，1982年3月，第25卷第3期，172-180页，1982年3月):

In The Shockwave Rider, J. Brunner developed the notion of an omnipotent "tapeworm" program running loose through a network of computers - an idea which may seem rather disturbing, but which is also quite beyond our current capabilities. The basic model, however, remains a very provocative one: a program or a computation that can move from machine to machine, harnessing resources as needed, and replicating itself when necessary. In a similar vein, we once described a computational model based upon the classic science-fiction film, The Blob: a program that started out running in one machine, but as its appetite for computing cycles grew, it could reach out, find unused machines, and grow to encompass those resources. In the middle of the night, such a program could mobilize hundreds of machines in one building; in the morning, as users reclaimed their machines, the "blob" would have to retreat in an orderly manner, gathering up the intermediate results of its computation. Holed up in one or two machines during the day, the program could emerge again later as resources became available, again expanding the computation. (This affinity for nighttime exploration led one researcher to describe these as "vampire programs.")

引用艾伦·凯的话:“预测未来最好的方法就是创造未来。”

数码相机呢?

根据维基百科，第一个真正的数码相机出现在1988年，大众市场的数码相机在20世纪90年代末变得负担得起。