We can search books back to 1820 to find trends. "cybernetics" peaked in 1969. "robotics" peaked in 1986. "artificial intelligence" peaked in 1989. "natural language processing" peaked in 1991. "neural network" peaked in 1997. "machine learning" still has a slow upward trend. "nanotechnology" has a fast upward trend.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cybernetics%2Crobotics%2Cartificial+intelligence%2Cnatural+language+processing%2Cneural+network%2Cmachine+learning%2Cnanotechnology&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
