Advances+in+Technology

Technology, science, and inventions have progressed at an accelerated rate during the 20th century, more so than ever before. The 20th century began with the ideas of airplanes, automobiles, and radio, when those inventions were at the cutting edge of technology. We now end the 20th century with spaceships, computers, cell phones, iPods, and the wireless Internet all being technologies we can take for granted. Spaceships and their various discoveries about the our world and the planets around it have helped shape our knowledge about the Earth and how it was formed, and how we have come to survive and thrive on such a place. In 2004, Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were successfully launched to Mars as a project to determine if there was ever life on Mars and to see if human exploration of Mars is ever possible. With the advent of computers and Internet, the world is able to share information in mere seconds.