电可擦可编程存储器，概括为非易失性读/写存储器，目前最著名和最普遍的是Flash。 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEPROM列出了这个发明于1984年。

通过赋予存储介质与处理单元相同的物理特性、功率要求、大小和稳定性，我们消除了在设计处理器位置时的限制因素。这扩大了我们如何以及在何处为如此多的智能设备(以及以前根本不被认为是智能的东西)赋予“智能”的可能性，以至于我们仍然被这股浪潮所吸引。Mp3播放器只是其中的一小部分。

企业服务总线似乎是一个相当新的“发明”，尽管它当然是基于更古老的技术。

当然，1980年以前是施乐PARC的辉煌时期。在图形用户界面、鼠标、激光打印机、互联网和个人电脑刚刚诞生的时候。(鉴于我太年轻了，不可能活在那个年代，而你几乎在努力发明所有这些东西，关于1980年的事情，我不能告诉你任何你不知道的事情，所以我们继续吧。)

The thing is, though, that the pre-1980 days were a lot more vibrant in terms of truly disruptive new technologies. That's the way it is with any new field -- hwo many game-changing technology advances have you seen in railroads in the past 100 years? How many have you seen in lightbulbs? In the printing press? Once something ignites a hype in the right circles, there is an explosive period of invention, followed by a long period of maturing. After that, you're not going to see the same kind of completely radical changes again UNLESS the basic circumstances change.

幸运的是，这可能会发生在一些领域，而且已经发生在其他一些领域:

Mobility - smart phones bring computing to a truly portable platform, which will soon include location-based services and proximity-based ad-hoc networks. It's a completely new paradigm that's potentially as game-changing as the GUI has been The WWW (HTTP, HTML and DNS) has already been mentioned and is an obvious addition to the list, since it is enabling global, inexpensive, mainstream rich communication across the globe - all thanks to a computing platform On the interface side, both touch, multitouch (Jeff Han comes to mind) and the Wiimote need mentioning. Currently, they are basically curiosities, but so were the early GUIs. OOP design patterns -- higher level solutions as best practices to hard problems. Depending on your definition of 'computing', it may or may not belong on the list, but if you count OOP as a significant advance pre-1980 (I certainly do), I think design patterns and the GoF deserve a mention too Google's PageRank and MapReduce algorithms - I am pleased to notice I wasn't the first to mention them, and seriously --- where would the world be without the principles of both of them? I vividly remember what the world looked like before them, and suffice it to say Google really IS my friend. Non-volatile memory -- it's on the hardware side, but it is going to play a significant role in the future of computing - making bootup times a thing of the past, for example, and enabling us to use computers in entirely new ways Semantic (natural language) search / analysis / classification / translation... We're not quite there yet, but companies like Powerset give the impression that we're on the brink. On that note, intelligent HTMs should be on this list as well. I am yet another believer in Jeff Hawkins' model and approach, and if it works, it will mean a complete redefinition of what computers can do, what it means to be human, and where the world can go from here. Creating a real intelligence in that way (synthetically) would be bigger than anything the human race has accomplished before. GNU + Linux 3D printing / rapid prototyping (and, in time, manufacturing) P2P (which also lead to VoIP etc.) E-ink, once the technologies mature a bit more RFID might belong on the list, but the verdict is still out on that one Quantum Computing is the most obvious element on the list, except we still haven't been able to get enough qubits to play along. However, my friends in the field tell me there's incredible progress going on even as we speak, so I'm holding my breath for that one. And finally, I want to mention a personal favourite: distributed intelligence, or its other name: artificial artificial intelligence. The idea of connecting a huge number of people in a network and allowing them access to the combined minds of everyone else through some form of question answering interface. It's been done a number of times recently, with Yahoo Answers, Askville, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and so on, but in my mind, those are all missing the mark by a LOT... much like the many implementations of distributed hypertext that came before Tim Berners-Lee's HTML, or the many web crawlers before Google. Seriously -- someone needs to build an search interface into 'the hive mind' to blow everyone else out of the water. IMHO - it is only a matter of time.

个人电脑。

毫无疑问，在过去的30年里，计算最重要的部分是现在每个人都是它的一部分。家用电脑大约从1977年才开始普及，直到80年代才得到广泛应用。现在，幼儿园、老年中心和你的每个邻居都有一台。

iPad(2010年4月发布):这样的概念绝对是革命性的!

可选文字 http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2010/1/apple-ipad//apple-ipad-05.JPG

艾伦·凯不可能在20世纪70年代看到这一点! 想象一下这样一个“个人的、便携的信息操纵者”……

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等待?什么! ?你说的Dynabook ?

早在1968年，艾伦·凯就提出了这个想法，并在1972年的论文中进行了详细的描述。

NOOOoooooooo……

哦……不要紧。

增强现实

真实世界的视图与虚拟元素以某种方式结合在一起。

“虚拟现实”一词出现于1989年，比“增强现实”一词出现早了几年。

一些早期的使能技术是在1980年之前发明的，但这个概念本身可以追溯到90年代初(至少维基百科是这么说的)。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality#History