21st Century Technology

Kristen Yurovchak

Art 211

Professor Roundtree

17 October, 2017

21^st Technology

            All over the world, people use cell phones to communicate with one another. The primary cell phone that people use is the IPhone, which has innovated cell phone technology forever. Almost every year, Apple comes out with a new version of the phone that is better than the last version of it. It has new features that people spend hundreds of dollars for. However, the IPhone could not be what it is today without the help of technology that came before it.

            We are able to have the IPhone and many other 21^st century technologies thanks to invention of electromagnetism. Discovering this allowed people to invent ways of communication such as the telegraph, which is the basis for the internet. (Nesterov). Through electricity we also were able to invent the telephone and radio which is a crucial part to the development of the cell phone and the IPhone. The phone would also not be functional without a battery, another technology that came before the IPhone.

            In the year 1800, Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile. Due to this it became possible to develop a battery although not until two centuries later was this idea fully realized. In 1985, the prototype for the lithium-ion battery was invented and in 1991 in the first commercial battery was available with the battery and the electrical telegraph (Nesterov). This pushed scientists to invent the Internet and World Wide Web.

            Another crucial part of the IPhone is the computing software that was created. Without the software the IPhone would not be what it is today. Apple first developed Newton, the touch capable digital assistant in 1993 (Nesterov). In 2007 Apple then created the IOS otherwise known as the “IPhone operation system” which is what is used today. Two other technologies that helped the IPhone come into fruition as well is Wi-Fi and the photo camera.

            The IPhone has changed the world as we know it. The existence of it has created the existence of other things such as; selfies, apps, expansion in social media, GPS expansion, threaded text message and much more. The IPhone has allowed for forms of communication that wasn’t as available before. Texting has become a bigger deal and has almost eliminated the phone call. There are apps and websites that only work on the IPhone instead of being able to use them on the computer. It has allowed creativity from all kinds of people on all sorts of things.

Works Cited

Nesterov, Dymtro. “IPhone: How Did We Get There? [Technology History Infographic].”

QuartSoft, Quartsoft, 21 Oct. 2014, quartsoft.com/blog/201410/iphone-technology-history-infographic.