digital revolution
Computing changes everything
The digital revolution is the shift from mechanical and analog technology to digital electronics, beginning in the late twentieth century.
Computers, the internet, and mobile devices transformed how people communicate, work, and access information.
The term parallels earlier transformations like the Industrial Revolution: The digital revolution changed publishing forever.
State of being linked
- broadbandFast internet access
- WiFiRadio-based network access
- social mediaOnline content-sharing platforms
- e-commerceInternet-based buying and selling
streaming · cloud storage · hyperlink · webinar · blogging · online · ISP · Ethernet
Miniature semiconductor processor
- semiconductorPartial electrical conductor
- processorComponent that executes instructions
- algorithmFinite problem-solving procedure
- softwarePrograms directing computer operations
hardware · programming · binary · data · CPU · RAM · transistor · coding
Wholesale replacement of frameworks
- disruptionForceful interruption of process
- automationSelf-operating system design
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- virtualizationCreating simulated computing environments
convergence · information age · knowledge economy · mobility · ubiquity · smart devices · interactivity · agility
Movement toward improvement
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- upgradeRaise to higher standard
- automationSelf-operating system design
- efficiencyProductive without waste
streamlining · overhaul · renewal · legacy systems · migration · adoption · implementation · integration
Sudden important advance
- disruptionForceful interruption of process
- startupsNewly launched businesses
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
incubation · pioneering · research · development · Silicon Valley · venture capital · tech giants · unicorn
connectivity
State of being linked
- broadbandFast internet access
- WiFiRadio-based network access
- social mediaOnline content-sharing platforms
e-commerce · streaming · cloud storage · hyperlink · webinar · blogging · online · ISP · Ethernet · hashtag
microchip
Miniature semiconductor processor
- semiconductorPartial electrical conductor
- processorComponent that executes instructions
- algorithmFinite problem-solving procedure
software · hardware · programming · binary · data · CPU · RAM · transistor · coding · operating system
paradigm shift
Wholesale replacement of frameworks
- disruptionForceful interruption of process
- automationSelf-operating system design
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
virtualization · convergence · information age · knowledge economy · mobility · ubiquity · smart devices · interactivity · agility · paperless
progress
Movement toward improvement
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- upgradeRaise to higher standard
- automationSelf-operating system design
efficiency · streamlining · overhaul · renewal · legacy systems · migration · adoption · implementation · integration · optimization
breakthrough
Sudden important advance
- disruptionForceful interruption of process
- startupsNewly launched businesses
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
patents · incubation · pioneering · research · development · Silicon Valley · venture capital · tech giants · unicorn · pivot
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- American InnovationEdison, Thomas Edison, Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, Wright brothers
- breakthroughsDNA discovery, germ theory, atomic theory, theory of relativity, quantum theory
- economic historystock market crash, trade routes, Great Depression, gold standard, Silk Road
- graphic design historyBauhaus, Art Nouveau, Swiss design, modernism, postmodernism
- Post-Cold WarUSSR dissolution, Soviet collapse, German reunification, Eastern Bloc, Boris Yeltsin
digital revolutionindustrial revolution
Rapid economic mechanization period
steam age · Stone Age · printing press · Bronze Age · vacuum tube era
digital revolutionoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
physical media · pen and paper · carbon copies · card catalogs · face-to-face interaction
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