Wednesday, September 4, 2019

What the hell happened in 2007

I was watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWCj-d2heM when I decided to write this blog.

Thomas Friedman is one of my favourite authors. He was interacting in a Intelligence Squared debate - again one of my favourite shows.

He was talking about his book Thank you for being late and specifically talking about a chapter which shares the title of this blog.

What happend in 2007? Most people remember the financial crisis in 2008. Here are some events which took place in 2007:

  1. Steve Jobs introduced iPhone, the first smart phone in the world
  2. Google bought Youtube
  3. Google launched Android
  4. AT&T introduced Software Defined Networks (SDN)
  5. Amazon introduced Kindle
  6. Air BNB was conceived in an apartment in San Franscico
  7. IBM built its cognitive computerWatson
  8. Intel introduced non-silicon material in chips
  9. Facebook opened up to public a few months before 2007
  10. Twitter started a few months before 2007
While the world went into a tailspin because of the financial crisis, the events of 2007 augured the beginning of the tech driven world.

Coincidentally, IIIT Bhubaneswar started around this time.
  1. The foundation stone was laid in 2006
  2. The Institute started functioning in 2007 and M.Tech. programme started in 2007.
It feels great to be in company of such tsunami like events and hopefully we created small waves in our own environment.