Friday, May 27, 2005

Top 25 Technology Innovations

The Internet, ranked No. 1, changed the world. (CNN Special Report)

Like the Internet, other items on the top 25 list have changed the way people go about their lives and are so commonplace that they are almost taken for granted.


TOP INNOVATIONS
1. The Internet

2. Cell phone
3. Personal computers
4. Fiber optics
5. E-mail
6. Commercialized GPS (Global Positioning System)
7. Portable computers
8. Memory storage discs (CD)
9. Consumer level digital camera
10. Radio frequency ID tags
11. MEMS (Microelectromechanical system)
12. DNA fingerprinting
13. Air bags
14. ATM
15. Advanced batteries
16. Hybrid car
17. OLEDs (Organic light-emitting diodes)
18. Display panels (Plasma Screen TV)
19. HDTV
20. Space shuttle
21. Nanotechnology
22. Flash memory
23. Voice mail
24. Modern hearing aids
25. Short Range, High Frequency Radio (WIFI)

How many of these are related to our subject? That's why we are studying e-commerce now.....!

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