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visarga t1_iy2w2kd wrote

Reply to comment by CypherLH in 2002 vs 2012 vs 2022 | how has technology changed? by Phoenix5869

> By comparison the leap from 2012 to 2022 seems smaller...

True, but this is also the golden period of AI. I think 90% of all AI research was done in the last 10 years.

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CypherLH t1_iy5w7fy wrote

Maybe. It seems like more of a period of incremental changes. I can only think of a few fundamentally NEW things to emerge in the 2012-2022 period that would stand out to most people from 2012....

-- VR going semi-mainstream and becoming a real thing even if still fairly niche

-- collapse in prices of very large flat screen TV's (even large OLED's are usually under $3000 now)

-- the Deep Learning neural net AI explosion (though practical applications have only really begun to emerge at the very end of that 2012-2022 period)

-- EV cars becoming practical

-- sudden emergence of mRNA tech spurred on by the COVID pandemic

-- wearable tech going mainstream (smart watches, fitness trackers, etc)

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Those are each pretty significant but it still feels like 2002 - 2012 saw more fundamental changes.

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