Technological Advancements Through The Years

Technology has changed remarkably over the last one hundred years. First, the way that we use books has changed. Another way is the way we play games. The way we communicate with each other has changed drastically over the last century as well. At this rate, with technology growing every day, we can see the “new” technology that we have right now is already being replaced with something else that is “new.”

Jackie Robinson once said “Life is not a spectator sport. . . . If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.” Robinson was always looking to advance not only in baseball, but in life as well. During the years 1945-1970, Americans experienced prosperity, advancements, and controversy. For example, the assassination of John F. Kennedy caused Americans to question the honesty of the government. In addition, Americans also faced massive Civil Rights movements and anti-war protests that divided the country. Some other events/people that affected this era were Martin Luther King Jr., the Space Race, and the wars in Vietnam and Korea (“Prosperity

The 1990’s were known for a number of encouraging but also undesirable events. Socially, economic expansion and environmental awareness created development within the United States. However, international political unrest lead to extremist demonstrations that had lasting effects. These historical events also resulted in improvements on technology within the decade. Advancements in space exploration and medical technological progress promoted enhancements while educational technology lagged the general population. These and other events would later have historians describing the 1990’s as overall a productive decade.

Since the 1950’s the world has come a long way from new and improved technological advances as well as the way people view and treat one another due to skin color or race, however, hate and racism still linger in the world. All over the world, there have been many new technological advances since the 1950’s, some examples are smoke detectors, the internet, laptops, computers, mobile phones, and more. According to the article “More People Have Cellphones Than Toilets, U.N Study Shows”, 6 billion people have access to a mobile phone out of 7 billion people (Wang). Technological advances are always occurring and since the 1950’s there has been a lot of new technologies. The fact that 6 billion people have access to a mobile phone is phenomenal.

Raymond Damadian is the man behind the MRI, he is the one who created it. His idea sparked from a machine called NMR, which is short for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. An NMR “Scans salt loving bacteria called halophytes that contain twenty times greater potassium levels than most bacteria. Results were so promising that Damadian realized the technique could be used to diagnose cancer and other diseases in humans.” (Raymond Damadian, Inventor of the MRI). Raymond’s wife said that he struggled at times to create the machine, but he kept his faith, and kept working, and now the MRI provides answers to people who thought there never was one. Damadian was a strong Christian and gave all the glory to God.

With no intention of discarding the importance of religion in how our world has progressed, I would argue that religion has been holding us back from our full potential in terms of science and technological innovation and practice of free will.

Innovations formed from advances in science and technology fuel economic growth. The influence of innovations in biomedical technology is often overlooked. Technological change in medicine

Without the MRI there were many risks, the surgeries preformed were very high risk and not guaranteed to go well. Human’s risked their lives and others to find out possible medical issues they could have. The MRI was first invented by Raymond Damadian in 1977 to diagnose cancer.⁴ Although there were multiple scientists involved, such as Sir Peter Mansfield and Paul Lauterbur, Damadian was the one responsible for “the construction the first full-body human MR scanner.”¹ Lauterburg introduced the first true MR image in nature in March of 1973, with all his research and experimental setups, he was able to produce “crude images of his first living organism: a tiny clam.”¹ With multiple practices and much help, Mansfield developed the first human image, a finger in 1977, which was played a big part in his earning of the Noble Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2003, where he shared with Lauterburg. Damadian saw the NMR scanner as something different than Lauterburg and Mansfield, he saw it as “phenomenon that might be used to probe the body and diagnose human disease.”¹ The image below represents the first full-body MR image produced mid-summer, 1977. Damadian was the first to commercially display his findings and reseach through his company

The first MRI machine was invented in the United States by Professor Raymond Damadian in 1977 after he had realized that different animal cells emitted response signals that varied in length. He discovered cancerous cells had response signals that were twice as long as regular cells. He was then granted a patent for an "Apparatus and Method for Detecting Cancer in Tissue" in 1974. In 1977, Damadian completed his work and nicknamed his creation “Indomitable”.

The MRI was invented by Raymond Damadian while he was conducting a nuclear magnetic resonance scan on a bacteria named halophiles. The results of the scan were promising in the fact that this technique could also identify and diagnose cancer or other diseases found in humans. In 1970 he reported documents about the enormous difference of MR signals from Cancer tissue and average body tissue. The first appearances of this achievement started popping up in largely popular magazines in 1973. Damadian started work on NMRs about how potassium ions change its effect in different cells. He discovered that depending on the cell tissue the potassium ions would change its relaxation time i.e relaxation times were much shorter than in distilled water.

(1). Following this proposal, scientists worked together to research into this claim. Finally, in 1971, Damadian discovered that different tumours within the bodies of mice displayed unique relaxation time in comparison to healthy tissues. Interpreting the results, he discovered that the presence of tumours can be detected using this variance. (1).The development of the fundamental idea behind MRI opened the door for an imaging technology that allowed for a higher quality image between tissue and disease than the current methods could provide. (1).In the late 1970s, MRI made its debut in the radiology department of local hospitals, and has become a staple medical imaging community. (1).

Technology has been rapidly growing since the 20th century. Whether it comes to cars, computers, or even weapons they keep getting more advanced. People rely more and more on technology, they are less capable to face things on their own. Although technology has advanced the capability of learning, it has also increased power for the tyrranic powers, and there's ALWAYS a power hungry leader. Plus everyone nowadays depends on technology. Although the world has changed in many ways, it is my belief that society will use technology for its own mass destruction.

Updates in technology in the late 20th century has changed what art used to be. 20th century art began with artists using expressionism to create their own peices work, then transforming into the revolutionary movement of surrealism in the 1920s. Around 1940, propaganda began. This encourages artists to use their own opinions about war and to be creative with posters that support the country the way they see it. Before technology escalated, I beleive artists were more creative with persuing new peices of unique artwork that represents something that they truely care aboutvunlike nowadays, where people are creating propaganda because they are being paid good amounts of money, not because that what they truely bare about. Digital techniques they

Our modern technology dates back thousands and thousands of years ago to the ancient world. If it wasn’t for the civilizations who started this all, we would have very little to no technology, because they were the creators of our world today. The simplest things they created to help them survive and make everyday life easier has improved over the years and have also made it simpler for us to survive as well. Their cultures started a movement for technology and some of the things they invented are incredibly creative and genius. To look back and see the inventions they made with their own bare hands is amazing, considering they had no machines to help them build things and basically had no base to piggy back off of. Three cultures that truly shaped the way we live today were the ancient Egyptians, the ancient Greeks, and the Romans.

Primitive men cleaved their universe into friends and enemies and responded with quick, deep emotion to even the mildest threats emanating from outside the arbitrary boundary. With the rise of chiefdoms and states, this tendency became institutionalized, war was adopted as an instrument of policy of some of the new societies, and those that employed it best became - tragically - the most successful. The evolution of warfare was an autocatalytic reaction that could not be halted by any people, because to attempt to reverse the process unilaterally was to fall victim.