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How Has Human Technology Evolved Over Time?

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Long before there was the genre of science fiction, humanity has questioned the future what it brings. How it will be different tomorrow from how it is today and how to prevent or make it possible. Such wonderings bring about inventions such as an ancient earthquake detector in the form of a vase with dragons on the outside that would drop a ball into a bowl in the direction of the quake. Or the invention of many weapons in the time of war to gain an advantage over the enemy. If we look at how both have changed and evolved over time, I pose a question that I am trying to find sources to answer for an average adult audience. How has human technology evolved over time, and what does this mean for how it can and will change in the future?
I would like to start with the source I thought was the worst for such a paper, 23 Incredible New Technologies You’ll See by 2021. A blog post that talks about technology that are believed to appear in the next ten years from before the paper was written (Wire, 2013). While there are some positives to the source: it being written with the average reader in mind, and some of the predictions close to when the year it was guessed. There are also heavier cons that make it the worst. There is no way to know where the information came from as there are no sources listed anywhere on the page. Many of the predictions to a reader today would see are incorrect or know that it has grossly overestimated how much it has integrated into society. In

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