As I See Tech

One way to "kill" a technology is to launch it too soon. Apple's bet on 100% touchscreen smartphones back in 2007 proved that the world was ready. Although Apple was not the first in the touchscreen phone business, Apple's brave bet to venture first with touchscreen paid off. In most respects, their success was because the world was ready.

Humanoid robot designs had been man's fascination some millenniums before Leonardo Da Vinci even came up with his design in the 1400s. It took around 500 years later for the term "robot" to be invented by Karel Kapek, a play author. It was then followed shortly by the term "robotics" coined by Isaac Asimov , a science fiction author, to refer to the science and study of robots. I believe that something is important if it has a name. If you think about it, 500 years to give it a name demonstrates how slow the development of robots had been. To date, more than 50 years later, we are nowhere close to The Bicentennial Man .