Kardashev index
0.720
Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1
AccelerationFour-dimensional view20 years agoThe Mobile Internet
2007-01-09
iPhone Unveiled
The touchscreen smartphone puts the internet in your pocket.
Art style · 2000s product rendering
Origin of Life on EarthDinosaurs and MammalsAI Agents
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6.76Bpeople
1/1 of today
1.6×10¹³W
1/1 of today
1.9×10⁷floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)
1/4,245 of today
0.03 seconds
Comparable to today
39,897km/h
Comparable to today
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Amazon launches the S3 storage service; storage and compute can be rented on demand. Source
Hinton and Salakhutdinov publish a method for training deep networks in Science. Source
Shinya Yamanaka uses four genes to reprogram adult cells into pluripotent stem cells. Source
The touchscreen smartphone puts the internet in your pocket. Source
NVIDIA releases CUDA, opening GPUs to general-purpose computing. Source
An e-ink reader with wireless downloads holds hundreds or thousands of books at once. Source
Third-party apps install on phones with a single tap, and the mobile app ecosystem takes shape. Source
China's first 350 km/h high-speed line links Beijing and Tianjin in half an hour. Source
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