article on technological advancement
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The technological landscape often changes very rapidly. Many technologies that were considered the most popular among people few years back might be facing extinction today. This does not happen due to natural or human influenced disasters but rather because of the advancements and innovations of the cutting-edge parallel and alternative technologies. In some sense, one technology kills another.
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The technological landscape often changes very rapidly. Many technologies that were considered the most popular among people few years back might be facing extinction today. This does not happen due to natural or human influenced disasters but rather because of the advancements and innovations of the cutting-edge parallel and alternative technologies. In some sense, one technology kills another. Gone are the days of floppy disk which is already replaced by USB flash stick. Likewise, we once saw the boom of photographic film which is now obsolete in the age of digital camera. In fact, Kodak like companies producing photographic films faced huge revenue loss with the advent of digital camera [1]. Fax machines are being replaced by MFPs (Multifunction printers). The future is unpredictable but in many cases, it is more or less understood that with the advancement of technologies, some other parallel technologies suffer the most. Eventually, the concerned technology companies pay the price. This is even more practical especially in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and overall Computer Science and Engineering-related fields. Within quick time, even within a period of five years, we could see changes that were not imagined before. We have various indicators, some we know and some we guess but when the right parameters join together, the change occurs pretty fast. While there are often practical latest products emanating from real products existing at the current time, in the research arena, we are free to think (with some rationale) about almost anything, whether in future that becomes a reality or not.