My last post (here at least), was mid-2015... In technological terms, that's about 3 decades. Like many things, life got in the way, yadda, yadda, yadda, now here we are about to sign off on 2017.
Here are some of the events I missed, during that time:
- SpaceX lands the Falcon 9 rocket - the first reusable rocket
- Scientists discover a previously unknown species of early human in South Africa known as Homo naledi
- Princess Charlotte of Cambridge is born while B.B. King, Jackie Collins and one my heroes Ron Clarke died
- Our smartphones started to sense pressure
- Driverless cars were being tested on our roads
- Apple Watch and Apple Pay is released
- Scientists culture brain matter in a lab
- 1 Bitcoin was worth about $500 and finally being accepted by some banks
- North Korea starts annoying the UN
- No ones thinks for a second, that Donald Trump could actually be president
- Donald Trump is elected president
- The Brexit
- Twitter begins a slow death with Disney, Google and Salesforce all failing to acquire the little bird
- Rio Olympics - the last for superstar Usain Bolt
- My second child is born, while David Bowie, Prince, Muhammad Ali, Gene Wilder, Fidel Castro, George Michael and Carrie Fisher died
- Elon Musk builds 27 acre SolarCity
- First Amazon package is delivered via drone
- Engineers create dust size sensors that require virtually no power
- A.I. has another notch on its belt against humans thanks to Google's Tensor Processing Unit
- Apple remove the 3.5mm headphone jack, while the Samsung Galaxy Note7 literally explodes
- Snapchat becomes a force to be reckoned with, while Facebook launch Facebook Live and becomes a superpower
- Apple stood firm on its privacy, even against the FBI, a massive win for fruit lovers everywhere
- Uber begins its domination
- 1 Bitcoin was worth just under $1,000
- SpaceX conducts the world's first re-flight of an orbital class rocket
- Face detection is now an integrated reality, even with the new iPhone
- A.I. has yet another notch on its belt against humans
- Elon Musk launches The Boring Company and Neuralink
- Samsung Galaxy S8 doesn't explode
- Snap inc. release Snapchat Spectacles, yes, they really did
- Linkedin becomes a Microsoft product and exceed 100 million monthly active users (4.2mil in AUS)
- Facebook exceeds 2 billion monthly users globally (15mil in AUS), while YouTube being the only other social network over the billion monthly user mark (15mil in AUS)
- Twitter's Vine makes a comeback as Vine Camera after being shut down 12months earlier
- 1 Bitcoin is worth over $15,000
THE MORAL:
HAD I INVESTED JUST $5,000 IN BITCOIN WHEN I LAST SIGNED OFF, I WOULD HAVE NOW SOLD IT TODAY FOR OVER $150,000
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