{"id":101500,"date":"2020-01-28T03:12:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-end-of-the-digital-revolution-is-coming-heres-whats-next"},"modified":"2020-01-28T03:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:12:12","slug":"the-end-of-the-digital-revolution-is-coming-heres-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-end-of-the-digital-revolution-is-coming-heres-whats-next","title":{"rendered":"The End Of The Digital Revolution Is Coming: Here\u2019s What\u2019s Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-end-of-the-digital-revolution-is-coming-heres-whats-next.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1946 the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or the ENIAC, was introduced. The world\u2019s first commercial computer was intended to be used by the military to project the trajectory of missiles, doing in a few seconds what it would otherwise take a human mathematician about three days. It\u2019s 20,000 vacuum tubes (the glowing glass light bulb-like predecessors to the transistor) connected by 500,000 hand soldered wires were a marvel of human ingenuity and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if it were possible to go back to the developers and users of that early marvel and make the case that in 70 years there would be ten billion computers worldwide and half of the world\u2019s population would be walking around with computers 100,000,000 times as powerful as the ENIAC in their pants\u2019 pockets.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d have been considered a lunatic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1946 the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or the ENIAC, was introduced. The world\u2019s first commercial computer was intended to be used by the military to project the trajectory of missiles, doing in a few seconds what it would otherwise take a human mathematician about three days. It\u2019s 20,000 vacuum tubes (the glowing glass [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}