Kozminski Techblog

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When equipment and gadgets were first conceived, debuted, or popularized years or decades ago, they were dramatically different. We see what old-school designs have become in this look at technology developments. 

• Floppy disk drive 

To store 256 gigabytes of data, you’d need 213 thousand individual five and a quarter inch floppy disks, each with a capacity of 1.2 megabytes. 

• Thumb drive

All you need now is this 2 inch long thumb drive, which can easily store the same amount of data.

• Model-t Ford 

The first consumer automobile, debuted in 1908, had a top speed of 45 miles per hour and produced 20 horsepower. 

• Supercar

The 2017 descendent is now a supercar with 600 horsepower and top speeds of more than 200 mph. 

• Television 

A seven-inch black-and-white screen with a resolution of 653 by 499 pixels was featured on the 1948 Admiral model 19 a 12 TV set. 

• TV in Ultra High Definition (UHD) 

The minimum resolution of today’s 4k super high definition TVs is 3840 by 2160 pixels. 

• Camcorder 

In 1965, Kodak introduced super 8 millimeter film cameras with film cartridges that could record up to 2.5 minutes at 24 frames per second.

• Video recorder with high-definition 

Can record 1080p video at 30 frames per second for up to 4 hours and 21 minutes.

• Laptop 

The osborne one was the first real portable computer, designed by Adam Osborne in 1981. It weighed 24 pounds, had a 5-inch screen, and cost $1795. 

Circuit 2016 laptops are sleek and light, with 13 to 15-inch touchscreens and blazingly fast CPUs, and they cost $1,000 or less. 

• Mobile device

Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher, made the first mobile phone conversation in April 1973, using a device that weighed 1.1 kilograms and measured 23 centimeters in length. It had a 30-minute talk time and needed 10 hours to recharge. 

• Mobile phone 

Today, approximately 150 mobile phone manufacturers around the world make the current edition of this device, which is small, light, and thin, and can be used anywhere. 

• ENIAC 

The electronic numerical integrator and computer ENIAC, developed by Pennsylvania University scientists in 1946, was a 30-ton BAM off with over 17,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors filling a 30 by 50 footroom. 

• Calculator

After the first microprocessor was invented in the 1970s, contemporary electronic pocket calculators became available. during the 1970s After Intel produced the first microprocessor for Japanese calculations, the firm remained busy and peaceful. 

• Pocket calculators

Texas is currently producing pocket calculators. Although there are instruments, there is a tremendous amount of processing power. In a box the size of a smartphone

In this case, we can see that our world did a huge jump in technology, unfortunately in nowadays world we don’t notice it.

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Nowadays social media is disconnecting us, I saw plenty of people ho  out to dinner all the time and it drives me nuts and I see couples on dates clearly together but on their cell phones it’s one of the strangest things

A lot of people chose to connect online rather than to connect with a human being they chose social media over the potential of a real relationship right in front.

Social media is killing relationships, social media is replacing experiences and  has changed the way we live. Social media is impacting social issues. Our lives from the way we get news to the way we interact with loved ones it’s everywhere it’s powerful and it’s growing. 

According to the global Web index we spend on average two hours a day on social media and it’s increasing at a rate of two minutes per day over the course of a lifetime that’s five years and four months on social media that’s over 40,000 hours. We touch our phones or check our phones a hundred and fifty times a day, rather than visit a museum or art gallery we take to Instagram to view the works of artists like Banksy. We care more about how other people perceive our adventures than actually having them. world is changing with every passing moment because of technological inventions and rapid adoption of the technology but technology is not the problem, we are. And the reality is we are slowly becoming addicted.

How can we avoid being addicted: 

1.Limit time in social media

2.Make a list of entertaiments 

3.Always carry book with you

4.Call instead of write 

5.Turn off your telephone before you go to sleep

We need to use social media as a support to building real relationships but not to wreck.

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The health society performed a research on the psychological influence of social networks on 1,500 people in 2019. 

It was discovered that among the five most popular social networks, regular usage of four of them (Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, and Instagram) causes mental problems, while only one of them (YouTube) had a favorable influence on mental health. 

4 social networks with bad implications for the psyche were made in order of least detrimental pain to it, and the findings are as follows: least harmful Twitter, then Facebook, then Telegram, and finally Instagram, which is the social network that clogs your head the most. 

Why is Instagram the most destructive to one’s mental health, and what can be done about it?

Our brain, in reality, is constantly collecting information about the environment around us without our knowledge. There are various reasons for this, including ensuring our safety and locating the required resources. However, one of the most essential reasons the brain accomplishes this is to try to figure out where we are on the public career ladder. Pyramids are human in every social position and in any place. We also utilize this data to figure out where we are. 

Before the Internet and the widespread use of social networks, there were few individuals with whom you could compare yourself; instead, you glanced about at your local surroundings and your peers.

According to recent surveys, kids spend an average of 6-9 hours every day on social media. When you spend a lot of time on social media, your brain stops seeing your environment as it is and starts believing that all of these people on Instagram actually surround you and starts comparing their lives to yours. It observes that they look much better than you and starts comparing your life to theirs. 

Is primarily owing to the use of decent lighting, filters, and photoshop.

The brain believes that all of these people are much more successful and wealthy than you because it sees how your peers drive expensive cars, travel to exotic locations, and wear expensive clothes. Finally, the brain believes that all of these people are much happier than you because it sees hundreds of photos of people smiling as if their lives are beautiful every second by spending so much time on social media. When you’re not in the centre of the pyramid, your brain starts to assume you’re at the bottom. Instead of having only a few individuals above you, you may have the other 5%. The brain believes that most people have progressed farther down the hierarchical ladder, that the bar has been set so high that everyone appears to have a flawless life, and that you are the only one who lives an ordinary existence. 

The more you use Instagram, the lower you feel in the pyramid. That is the source of all the issues with this hierarchy’s psychology. This is not an enviable position for either people or animals, because being at the bottom of the pyramid indicates that you are among the least important members of the group, and no one cares about  you. Anxiety levels rise, resulting in issues such as sleeplessness, panic attacks, despair, and addiction. It’s all because you can’t unwind. It appears that one mistake and you’re dead since you can relax and enjoy life when it appears that you’re on the verge of death, but this is not the case. 

But your brain doesn’t realize it because you spend 6 hours a day in an imaginary world of supermodels traveling endless smiles, a world with which no one can compete, even the world’s most successful people can’t be happy every second as they make you believe photos, which is why society like instagram destroys.

Your life and convincing you that you must compete with a massive squad of fictional individuals with whom you will never catch up!

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It may appear impossible to program the surrounding reality until you discover that a person’s ideas may modify reality. Fortunately, or regrettably, I have stumbled upon such a “superpower,” and you can take your own conclusions after reading the entire article. 

Have you ever observed your hands constantly being washed, your feet thumping on the floor involuntarily, or your items being arranged in the “correct” order? Is it feasible to call behaviors like frenzied cleaning, double-checking the same item, mentally repeating phrases, and a desire for organizing the day by the minute “everyday habits”?

A person believes that by repeating specific activities, he may avoid fate. “If I do it perfectly, nothing will happen,” you’ll hear a lot from these people. 

Childhood trauma, moral and physical fatigue, stress, and even culture can all be used to justify such behaviors (myths, omens).

In most cases, the need for absolute omnipotence causes anxiety, and the habit swiftly develops into an actual mental illness known as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This leads to compulsive ideas that something like this might happen. Furthermore, a person’s ideas might attract negative energy and situations, confirming that everything he is experiencing is accurate. As a result, a person programs his or her own world. And it appears to be a kind of mental prison that a person builds for himself, from which he can only be released with the help of drugs and psychotherapy.

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The year 2020 demonstrated that no business, no matter how powerful or well-known, can be completely immune to the external environment. 

According to research and data, successful businesses in the fields of tourism, air travel, film industry, catering, and hospitality suffered during the coronavirus outbreak, and 1.95 million small and medium-sized businesses were shut down, according to tass.ru. The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on industry and the economy throughout the world. Life on the earth has come to a halt, and billions of people have been forced to seek refuge in their houses. Many people will lose their jobs as a result of this, and no one has canceled their expenses: bills, rent, hunger, and loans have not been canceled. Many individuals lost their jobs and had to hunt for new ones, but other businesses found the lockdown regime, in which people are told not to leave their houses until absolutely necessary, to be quite profitable. The demand for grocery delivery from retailers has soared throughout the outbreak. Over the last two years, the overall number of moviegoers in the globe has climbed by 18 percent, while the number of Netflix customers has increased by 47 percent (according to bbc.com). In addition, Netflix said on April 22 that between January and March, the firm added approximately 16 million new members.

This situation terrified individuals since one of the most important things to them are stability. As a result, many people turned to freelance. One of the most rewarding ways to work from home, knowing that no matter what happens outside the house, people had and will have a job. Not only will save time on the commute but will also have the freedom to arrange work around other daily activities. The number of new freelancers in Russia has grown by 76% over only the year: graphic designers, bloggers, translators, interpreters.

In today’s world, I see the future at work remotely. Moreover, I work remotely, due to the fact that part of the day I need to study and physically not able to go to work. Today people choose freelance to feel more comfortable for mental reasons, to work from another country, save time and save their health.

Freelancing is not about changing the work field, it is about a possible transition to another working mode: people are looking for earnings on a part-time or shift schedule wherever they are and whoever they are. It is about changing the environment around people and helping to adapt to new living conditions in nowadays world.