Since no supercomputer can yet predict the future, we need your help. Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions that you can push forward or backward in time (but not, of course, into the past), and a form for making and voting on predictions. The most prescient prophet might receive an iPad 2 in 2050. But if the past is any guide, this prediction will almost surely be wrong.
1801
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Jacquard's Power Loom
Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents a loom that creates woven cloth patterns based on wooden punch cards.
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1890
Census Bureau
The Hollerith Machine
The Hollerith machine, an electric tabulator developed by Herman Hollerith, calculates the census in one year, a job that previously took eight years.
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1938
A Programmable Computer
Konrad Zuse designs and builds the Z1, the first programmable computer.
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1971
First Microprocessor
Intel produces the first microprocessor, the 4004.
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1981
Computer Viruses
Elk cloner, arguably the first computer virus, is created by a 15-year-old high school student. It infected Apple II computers through their floppy disks.
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Google Indexes a Gigapage
Google announces that it has indexed more than a billion pages.
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2010
Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
China's Supercomputer
The world takes notice of Chinese technological prowess when a Chinese supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, briefly becomes the world’s fastest.
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1950
The Turing Test
Alan Turing proposes the Turing test to decide if a computer is exhibiting intelligent behavior.
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1981
Robot Kills Mechanic
A Kawasaki factory robot accidentally kills a Japanese mechanic.
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1986
The Connection Machine
Thinking Machines introduces the Connection Machine, a supercomputer that uses parallel computing and attempts to mimic the structure of the human brain.
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1997
Jack Manning/The New York Times
Deep Blue
I.B.M.’s Deep Blue computer defeats Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion. Deep Blue can evaluate 200 million chess positions per second.
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2000
CJ Gunther for The New York Times
Emotional Robots
Cynthia Breazeal publishes a dissertation on social machines at M.I.T., describing Kismet, a robot capable of expressing emotions.
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2004
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Honda's Asimo
Honda introduces an advanced humanoid robot called Asimo.
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2009
Autonomous Robotics
Robots that recharge themselves, unstoppable computer viruses, Predator drones and even a medical computer that simulates empathy are cited by a group of computer scientists as examples of advancements that could lead to profound social disruptions or dangerous consequences. The group debates whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems.
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1869
Transcontinental Railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad is completed.
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1903
High-Speed Trains
The high-speed train era begins with a German electric train that sped along at 126 miles per hour on a military railway track. Fifty-six years later, Japan starts construction of the first commercial high-speed rail system.
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1927
University of Utah
Television
Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates the first television. Thirty-seven years later, the flat-screen monitor, a plasma display panel, is invented at the University of Illinois.
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1960
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Spacewar
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