Technology has changed rapidly over the past five years. For example, video games have advanced from a simple rudimentary game of pong to sophisticated games like Halo with 3D graphics and motion sensors. Computer hardware has also changed a great deal as well. Computer hard drives have expanded from a paltry 1 MB (megabytes) to 250 GB over the past five years as well.
It wasn’t very long ago when computer graphics consisted of little dots on your screen, but today, high-powered 256 MB graphic cards let you view the virtual world of Halo in three dimensions.
In addition, the only sound you heard from your computer five years ago was a “beep.” Now, you can actually hear people speaking, and you can listen to music on an MP3 player.
Computer speeds have also increased by leaps and bounds. We now talk about a computer’s Internet processing speeds in terms of Megabytes (one million bytes) and Gigabtyes (one billion bytes), as opposed Kilobytes (or one thousand bytes).
With such huge advancements in computer technology over the past five years, the one question that comes to mind is, “What’s next in the world of computers?” Computer experts are saying that we can all expect to see much improvement in the area of text-to-speech applications. Apparently your computer will able be to convert the text you type into a word processor into speech. To date, technology is already available that allows you to convert speech into text, and many people are using it on a regular basis. Computer manufacturers plan to release a 64-bit sound card that will allow the conversion from text to voice.
As far as computer technology is concerned, we went from rudimentary video games to much more sophisticated ones. Computer speeds are also much faster. But perhaps the biggest advancement in computer technology is that they are much more affordable than they were five years ago, which is always a bonus.