Olivia de Haas
Assignment #4
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Moore’s law is basically the idea of technology doubling each year. It is the number of transistors or micro components that can be put on a microchip continually doubling. This was a law established by Gordon Moore. At first he said that this occurred every year and later he changed his theory to technology doubling every 18 months rather than 12.1
One example of Moore’s law is the television. It has evolved so much in the last 75 years or so. It has gone from black and white to big flat screen digital hi def televisions. Televisions now have blu ray and digital picture and so many features, it’s amazing to see where we have come from the very first television that was mad. The first working television was made in 1906 by Boris Rosing.
1900:That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."
1925: Vladimir Zworkin patents a color television system. The first moving image was transmitted (the famous grainy image of a ventriloquists dummy’s head)
1928: Television is introduced in the United States
The first television set is sold. The Daven television cost $75.
1967: Most TV broadcasts are in color.
1982: Dolby surround sound for home sets is introduced.
1982: Super VHS introduced.
1996: A billion TV sets world-wide.2
How it affects me-I think that Moore’s law affects everybody. It is the expansion of technology. This law effects teenagers greatly because they are always looking for the newest thing out, whether that’s the new 30 GB iPod or a new cell phone with music and camera. Technology has changed the way we see the world especially through internet. All of the resources we have to see and research other places is amazing and I can’t imagine technology going even farther in the next 18 months. I’m excited about what more can be done with everything we have and all the resources we could have that we don’t now.
A very interesting site that has all the models of televisions from the very first, up to what we have now. http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-1959.htm
2 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_you_have_a_timeline_of_television_history
http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=Moores+law&i=47229,00.asp
http://havemacwillblog.com/2007/11/15/moores-law-what-impact-does-it-have/
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212591,00.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Moores_Law.html
http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Television.htm
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-142082.html
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_you_have_a_timeline_of_television_history
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-1959.htm
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