Past and Present | Technology Then and Now transcript

[Music] past and present technology then and now devices and gadgets that we use today were radically different back when they were first invented introduced or popularized years or decades ago in this look at technological transformations we see what old-school designs have become [Music] floppy disk you'd need two hundred and thirteen thousand individual five and a quarter inch floppy disks each with a capacity of 1.2 megabytes to hold 256 gigabyte of data thumb drive now all you need is this 2 inch long thumb drive that easily stores the same amount of data [Music] books 1,400 physical books would weigh about 1 pound each that's about as much as half of a car Kindle the cheapest version of this electronic reader can hold that many books in digital form Ford model-t the first consumer automobile introduced in 1908 produce 20 horsepower and had a top speed of 45 miles per hour for GT the 2017 descendant has evolved into a supercar with 600 horsepower and speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour [Music] television the 1948 admiral model 19 a 12 TV set had a seven-inch black and white screen with a resolution of 653 by 499 pixels UHD TV today's 4k ultra high def TVs have minimum resolutions of 3840 by 2160 pixels [Music] video cam the super 8 millimeter film cameras produced by kodak in 1965 had film cartridges that recorded up to 2.5 minutes at 24 frames per second high-def video recorder can record 1080p video for up to 4 hours and 21 minutes at 30 frames per second [Music] laptop the first true portable computer was called osborne one built by adam osborne in 1981 it weighed 24 pounds had a 5 inch screen and cost 1795 dollars compact ultra portables laptop Circuit 2016 are sleek lightweight have 13 to 15 inch touchscreens blazingly fast processors and cost $1,000 or less [Music] mobile phone in April 1973 Motorola researcher Martin Cooper made the first mobile telephone call using a device that weighed 1.1 kilos and measured 23 centimeters long it had a talk time of 30 minutes and took 10 hours to recharge smart phone there are nearly 150 mobile phone manufacturers in the world today who produce the latest iteration of this device which is small light thin and is virtually a carry anywhere computer ENIAC built in 1946 by Pennsylvania University scientists the electronic numerical integrator and computer ENIAC was a 30-ton BAM off with over 17,000 vacuum tubes 70,000 resistors and 10,000 capacitors filling up a 30 by 50 foot room portable calculator modern-day electronic pocket calculators became available in the 1970s after the first microprocessor was developed by Intel for Japanese calculate a company busy calm now pocket calculators by Texas Instruments but enormous computing power in a smartphone size package [Music]