HISTORY OF TICS: FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT - TECHNOLOGY - 2025

The history of ICTs in modern times begins in the 70s of the last century, when the digital revolution broke out.

However, the search for tools to communicate remotely is something that has happened since very remote times and some fundamental devices today come from earlier times, such as the telephone.

ICTs are the acronyms for Information and Communication Technologies. They are defined as the technologies developed to facilitate communication and information between human beings.

Among them are computers, television and cell phones, but also old and disused inventions such as the telegraph

Brief history of ICTs

Although the ICT concept tends to be identified as something related to the latest advances in communication, such as computers or cell phones, human beings have always sought tools to communicate with their peers.

Without going into more rudimentary methods, such as the sound of drums or messages sent with animals, two fundamental advances in this area can be pointed out.

The first, the telegraph, which allowed communication over long distances already in the 19th century, with antecedents in the previous century.

The second, and which is the basis of many current technologies, is the telephone. Its creation in the second half of the 19th century and its popularization in subsequent decades laid the basis for universal communication on the planet.

The 60s and 70s of the 20th century

In those years the first computers began to be built. At first they were huge, occupying entire rooms, but little by little they start to shrink.

The development of transistors has a fundamental part in this matter, since they allowed more power.

Likewise, the first primitive version of the network appears then, what today is the Internet. It is a military creation, since the world was then in the middle of the Cold War.

Technological revolution of the 70s and 80s

In the decade of the 70 when it began to speak of Information and Communication Technologies. The great technological leap that occurs in those years causes the definitive incorporation of computing to communications, which is the starting point of the current digital age.

This continues to advance during the 1980s, when personal computers began to become more affordable and began to be used by more people.

Similarly, mobile cell phone models appear, which are decreasing in size and increasing in benefits.

From the 90s to the present

Once the tools were ready, the last push was lacking for these technologies to be the ones to characterize an entire era. And this momentum came with the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Since the 90s, its use has become so widespread that today it reaches the entire surface of the planet. In this way, the whole world is interconnected for the first time.

To this must be added the technical improvements of existing devices, such as telephones. Today, many people carry a small computer in their pocket, with all the information at their fingertips.

Similarly, the leap to digital has meant a great advance in terms of the speed and quality of data transmission, making it instantaneous.

It can be said that it has supposed a revolution only comparable to the appearance of the printing press.

The future

Although it is risky to make predictions about the future of ICTs, some authors point out that the next step will be the creation of quantum computers, much more powerful than the current ones.

Similarly, the popularization of smart devices suggests that interconnection will be even greater than now.

Finally, there are authors who seriously consider the possibility that part of these communication tools end up being implanted in the human body, making an external device unnecessary.

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