Do you know how it is defined? the informatics-computational moment in which we find ourselves? And, above all, do you know what it is due to? This is the sixth generation of computers and today we are going to see it in detail.
Is starts in the year 2000that is, with the millennium, and it still extends up to the moment you are reading these words, and it is transforming each passing day In fact, its days are numbered, with what will be the seventh generation being very close, scheduled for a very short time.
Do you want to know what have been the milestones of this completely technological moment in which we find ourselves? We are going to explain everything to you, from the characteristics that define it to the main inventions going through recognized characters and historical moments. See all in full.
What characteristics define the sixth generation of computers?
The beginning of this age comes with the introduction of wireless connectivity elements (Bluetooth, WiFi, WiMax…) to connect different devices, first to networks and then to each other. However, there are several and very diverse characteristics of this moment.
These include:
- Gets better of physical connectivity systems (ADSL and fiber).
- Bandwidths are immense.
- Daily and fully standardized use of the Internetfirst on desktop computers and then on all kinds of devices.
- Total revolution in terms of quantity and quality of hardware elements (CPU, GPU, memories…).
- Overwhelming amount of software.
- Developing of all kinds of elements until obtaining efficient products that offer unthinkable results a few years back.
- computers with parallel and vector architectures.
- The artificial intelligence develops considerably.
- appear all kinds of smart gadgetsincluding wireless (smartphones, televisions, refrigerators, ovens, cleaning devices, watches…).
- Complete design freedom in any device, not only with miniaturization, although this is completely common and surprising.
- Processors use superconductorswhich save energy.
- are performed millions and millions of operations per second.
- Multimedia develops and becomes a consumption method standard In Internet.
- I work in the cloud.
- Development of online commerce.
- Biometrics is a great incentive, given, initially, with the fingerprint reader.
- Development of specific operating systems for each type of device.
- In general, work is done to satisfy a demand for personal consumption.
As you can see, it is difficult to define what the characteristics of this generation are because there are many aspects, well differentiated, that are of great interest to the current user, all of which are worth mentioning.
Furthermore, we cannot forget that this list is expanding as the years go by, so that what is now only a sketch will soon be a standard.
What we can say, without a doubt about this stage, is that corresponds to a moment of absolute and constant revolution of the technological market.
What was the evolution and history of the 6th generation of computers?
As you can imagine taking a look at the previous point, the evolution of this time can be immensely long since everything that is achieved turns out to be an advance in computer technology at one level or another. Therefore, we will attend to the most relevant aspects.
This begins, as we anticipated, with the incorporation of WiFi as a wireless connection method so that our computers (and later other devices) could be connected to the network without using cables. The technology begins to be devised in 1999 and sees the light in 2000.
Other forms of wireless connectivity are also being developed, such as WiMax and which allow the sending and receiving of data by microwave and radio frequency respectively.
Work is being done, in parallel, on a number of aspects, finding ourselves at a time when technology is not a novelty but a field to improve.
A) Yes, tablets appear, also in 2000. to meet the needs of users who came using the PDAs in previous years and who were looking for more comfortable and versatile devices.
These they have never become really successfulnot existing, in fact, a boom in use, but it is fair to recognize that, in terms of design and functionality, they meant a lot, considerably reducing the size of laptops and maintaining functionalities basic that any user would like to use regularly and at home.
So does the “Blackberry”, a phone with a keyboard and the first intelligent functions. This opens the way to smartphones, which make a phone good for anything besides making and receiving calls.
The inclusion of its functionalities, yes, was very slow. Until a few years ago we can talk about true pocket computers (with ultra-powerful processors, large RAM memory, etc). Once these functionalities are developed, yes, the models that appear on the market multiply month after month, giving an offer that is much higher than the demand.
As regards computers, a lot of work is being done to increase processor speed, which improves practically exponentially with each advance. He too Masive storage It is a strong point, starting to use equipment with huge memories practically from one day to the next.
Likewise, graphics cards take on importance, giving them the ability to shoulder processing workrelieving the work of the CPU.
A turning point was the launch of the SSD, a non-volatile memory hard drive with which we store data, just as we do with HDDs. Among its characteristics we find that they have almost no moving parts, they are silent, they take up very little space, their latency is minimal and, most importantly, its typing speed is much higher.
Appears in 1999 with a flash base. In 2007 it was sold as an expansion card. In 2010 it was launched as an alternative to HDDbeing for many the best invention of the century in the IT sector.
The laptop gains in benefits, becoming an equivalent to the desktop, which makes it more expensive. To combat this, Other smaller portable devices with more modest features appear: netbooks, ultrabooks and notebooks..
The devices, all of them, in general, can be manufactured in a much smaller size, this being something that is left to the taste of each one since the offer in terms of device design is infinite.
Fiber optics appears as an option to consider instead of ADSL to have a network connection in homes and businesses. Its operation is simple and known for several centuries, but its usefulness in this sector began to be studied at the end of the 90s and was finally applied in 2005 in our country.
Bandwidths, very limited at first, have become enormous, allowing us to download a huge amount of content in minutes and making content streaming possible.
The amount of software that is made available to the user is countless, there being a large number of them for anything you can think of, first on computers and then on other machines. A) Yes, app stores are a must at present and there is a digitization process favored by the facilities that software is capable of offering in all kinds of tasks.
This also makes the cloud appeara place for everyone and no one where we can store content and work without taking up physical or virtual space in our facilities and equipment. This method of resource consumption is actually used today and is the basis of elements that we all consult daily (see the example of Google Drive).
Although they are not machines that are on the lips of society, being relegated to activities that most of us cannot even imagine, these have also multiplied their possibilities and there is a real race to have the most powerful in the world in many countries, capable of performing millions and millions of millions of operations per second.
The summary of the history of the sixth generation of computers is that it is a moment in which the novelties are not focused on any aspect but rather We always work so that the user uses more technological equipment and lives connected. Everyone develops, and with it, improvements are released that target everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
What computers and other prominent gadgets and items appeared in the 6th generation of computers?
On this occasion, due to the diversity of all types of devices, we do not want to highlight a particular model but the great revolutionaries that have been appearing since this last generation of computers began:
Tablet
A tablet is a mobile device that includes enough software and hardware to work like a computer but whose size is reduced and its shape consists of a rectangle of minimum thickness and between 7 and 12 inches diagonally. Is about a touch screen (works with the stylus or with the fingers themselves) that allows us to interact with the installed elements (games, office suites, browsers, etc).
Although its concept was seen a long time ago in audiovisual products such as 2001, a space odyssey or Star Trek, the truth is that nothing similar materially existed until a long time later.
In 1972 A. Kay developed the concept of Dynabook, although it was not able to carry it out due to the impossibility of developing adequate technologies. In 1987 Apple presents a video of a similar device, but totally futuristic.
It is the year 2001 that lets us see the first tablet as such, coming from the hand of Microsoft. In the following months, Nokia did the same. Once again, Microsoft launches Mira, which is renamed Tablet PC shortly after and which was a set of screen-devices without a keyboard.
blackberry
Although this is a brand, the truth is that it is the name we have chosen to refer to the mobile devices that include a complete under their screen.
It is a predecessor of the smart mobile phone or smartphone, because with this device we sent emails, had to-do lists, etc.
smartphone
Although the mobile phone appears much earlier, and we can consider PDAs as pocket computers, it is not until 1999 that what we can define as the first smartphone on the market appears. This was the i mode, from the Japanese company NTT DoCoMo. It transmitted data and allowed access to web services such as mailing or online shopping.
This, however, was not known worldwide until much later, when other models of smart mobile phones had already been launched on the other side of the globe in 2002. based on Windows Mobile OS and BlackBerry phones.
As is to be expected, At first they were very limited, including both very simple hardware and software that would evolve over the years. until allowing us, at present, to carry out the same…
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