The Web has been hailed as the most significant computing advance of the 20th century, and yet to see the Web as a single, static invention is to miss the point.
This product leaves almost every other home computing advance in the dust and I feel like a kid again, amazed at hard drives, printers, and the ability to create things out of thin air.
Earlier this year he somehow turned the release of a tablet computer free of any radical computing advances into a media event that garnered front-page headlines around the world.
The very same computing advances that allow your cell phones, computers, tablets and other gadgets to recognize you and respond to your voice now underpin the enabling of cars to achieve more and more autonomous operation.
In stream computing, advanced software algorithms analyze the data as it streams in.
And, just as Social Security had been enabled by I.B.M.'s computing advances, today's technologies offered new ways to enforce efficiency: biometrics, mobile connectivity, cloud computing.
Now, with Ava, it is using video and computing advances to create robots that can do office work remotely and perhaps one day handle more of the household chores.
And the story in medicine is the same as in so many applications of modern computing: advances in sensors for measuring, calculating power and artificial-intelligence software are opening the door to a new generation of smarter tools.
As Om Malik alluded to in his takedown of that above-mentioned Quartz post, there are hardware breakthroughs to behold, sensors and wearables, robots, cloud computing advances, and more.
The technological and computing advances that have enabled us to generate WGS data on thousands of individuals have also outpaced our ability to perform analyses in scientifically and statistically rigorous and thoughtful ways.
As an example, a first course might be "mobile-first", "social/local/mobile", "cloud computing", "advanced persistent threat", "big data", "delightful", "disruption", "innovation", "software-defined networking", "next-generation", "ephemeral", "engagement", "acquihire", "net neutrality", "software-as-a-service", "rockstar", "Bitcoin-enabled", "3D printing", "partner", and, of course, "yo".
