After the smartphones revolution .. Is it time for robots ?!

The technological nature of the current era is not completely gradual. Rather, it can be divided into a group of "technological waves", each of which lasts for a period of time, during which that wave is "the talk of the hour". With the passage of time this wave reaches its fullest point in its development, after which it disappears (or is swallowed up) into the next wave that has already begun; This is because its ability to reach higher heights - and thus bring about deeper change - is greater.

Since the 1970s, the world has gone through the  following technological waves :

1-wave analog 

It started in the 1970s and continued until the beginning of the 1990s. Until then everyone was talking about the first shapes of large format televisions and recorders (do you remember the tape recorders you were rewinding with a pen?) As a result of advances in the manufacture of analog electronics.

2- The first digital wave:

Which represents the first half of what we call the "digital revolution", which began in the mid-eighties and continued until shortly after the beginning of the second millennium. Everyone's obsession at this time was the 
undisputed 'personal computer'.

3- The second digital wave:

Which represents the second half of what we call the "digital revolution", which began in the early 1990s and will continue until the thirties of this century (2030). This is the era in which we live now, the era of consumer electronics and networks. You no longer talk about the personal computer as a miracle, that period is over, you are talking about the iPad, iPhone and Tablet, smart toothbrushes, smart kitchen, smart factory and smart bathroom (Japan baths must use a guide before using them!) .. Then all These devices are connected to everything via the Internet.

4- The Fourth Wave - Robotics:

This wave began in the early 2000s, and it will engulf the current wave completely by 2030. Just as having a personal computer has become a postulate that does not call for any kind of exclamation, all the devices that we are proud of now will reach the same fate, and the world’s talk will be for an indefinite period yet That's about one thing: robots. 

Naturally, everyday conversation would be something like this: How is your home robot? Have you visited Dr. Er-16? His bill is much cheaper than Doctor So-and-so. What's the percentage of human workers in your factory yet? 15%! What a retarder! Do you know such-and-such school? The robot is a great language teacher, she can teach 25 languages, my daughter listens a lot.

If you are smiling sarcastically or disbelief, this has only one explanation: You are thinking in a linear fashion, while the nature of technological progress in the world is exponential.

The mobile in your pocket now. The price of this small device that you carry in your pocket is a million times less than the price of the "supercomputer" that was the size of two floors at MIT in the 1960s, and the processing capabilities that this small device carries in your pocket is a thousand times the processing capabilities of this supercomputer, that means we are talking About a billion times the improvement in price-efficiency.


Google, one of the pillars of the digital age at the present time, has also been alerted to this fact, so it has been working for some time to develop robotic cars that drive themselves and stand at traffic lights and wait for people to cross and drive in the dark ... etc without any human intervention. In fact, by August 2012, this car was able to travel 480,000 km without a single accident, knowing that the average number of cars at any point in time around it was 12 cars. Since this is not satisfactory enough for Google, and a market will not guarantee it with sufficient strength in the coming era, we learned a few days ago that it was secretly buying several start-up companies working in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, specifically seven companies have been purchased so far that work in sectors Differentiated in robotics.