8 TRENDS OF TECHNICAL EVOLUTION

INTRO:
A View of the Distant Past, the Present
and the Far Future, Masefield Books,
1993. technology(which Richta defines as
"a material entity created by the
application of mental and physical effort
to nature in order to achieve some value")
evolves in three stages: tools, machine,
automation. This evolution, he says,
follows two trends: .

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8 TRENDS OF TECHNICAL EVOLUTION
1.Law of uneven developmentpertains to how parts of the
system evolve at different paces. In smartphone case Gorilla glass
was actually developed for non-phone purposes around 1970, and
the substrates were developed around 1980, LEDs that could use
these came only during 1990s, while a successful phone with these
elements came together for the first time with iPhone only in 2005.
2. Transition to Super systemis visible across many functions
that smartphones are performing now ranging from alarm clock,
radio, social networking, playing, browsing among so many others.
These were in reality individual sub system functions of users.

3. Transition to micro levelis another trend that has been

going on at many levels in the phone, most common example
is the per second billing instead of the per 3 minutes billing.
It can also be seen in control functions, earlier there was only
one setting across the phone, now we have settings at a
micro level be it at screen level (lock, home screens), profiles
and context, application level settings, among many others.
This is a clear transition to micro level.
4. Law of completenessis one of the simplest to
understand, and it has 4 components, as applied to our
example
ENGINE: the component that delivers the necessary energy,
in the case of smart phone it is easier to think of these are
needs at personal level to communicate, share, capture.

5. Law of Conductionon a smart phone is to be understood as

movement of data (voice, or others) through a medium (be it USB,
wifi, blue tooth, GSM etc)
6. Law of Harmonizationis one that necessitates a rhythm and
priority for actions from the system, in case of a smart phone you
can easily imagine multi-functions happening at the same time
like call + SMS with the same carrier, charging + data transfer
through one USB connection, background sync processes with
social and address books with the same network
7. Law of Idealitycan be applied in case of smartphone to many
different levels starting from what is ideal for the user, what is
ideal for the manufacturer (say one assembly line for all the
models), carrier can have their own ideal results (like transfer
ability across network types), or Operating system specific (say
zero system resource usage)

8. Law of increasing field degreesThe law of

coordination A group of laws of technical system
organization introduces minimal coordination which is
needed to provide a minimal working behavior of a
system. A minimal coordination is required to avoid
negative interference between system parts.