TIMELINE INGLES

Keilyn Cotom

HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED

The great technological leap of the Modern Age was driven by Johannes Guttenberg with the invention of the printing press in the year 1450. The Chinese had invented paper, but it was in medieval times that its use reached Europe and the printing press allowed the reproduction of texts on paper, giving rise to books as we know them.

The technological evolution was expressed in the creation of the first cities with their respective infrastructures: aqueducts, drainage systems, public baths, etc. The Egyptians engineered monumental stone pyramids and farming systems.

MODERN AGE

ANTIQUITY

PREHISTORY

MIDDLE AGES

CONTEMPORARY AGE

The Contemporary Age is the historical period of greatest technological evolution and could be divided, in turn, into three stages. The first corresponds to the Industrial Revolution, which began in the eighteenth century. The second, the age of computing and information technology, in the 20th century. And the current one, in which technology points towards quantum computing and artificial intelligence.

Technological evolution began 2.5 million years ago with Homo habilis, the first humans to develop stone tools. Technology from that period also included: -The use of fire

The Middle Ages began in the 5th century, when the cultivation of cereals was done with water mills, which worked with hydraulic power. The invention of windmills was a technological development that allowed food to be grown in places where there were no water flows, making agriculture more widespread.