In 2007,
- The first iPhone was release.
- GPU computing was coming into mainstream, CUDA 1.0 released.
- The Samsung Galaxy phone didn’t exist yet.
- The first year you longer need an invitation to get a gmail account.
- In February 2007, the Nintendo wii outsells the XBOX and Ps4 (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/408183/hack-the-nintendo-wii/)
- The first Amazon Kindle is released (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle)
- There is no 4G network for cell phones.
- Deep Learning doesn’t exist.
- There is no imagenet benchmark for object recognition.
- In the Top 500 supercomputer list, entry to the top 50 requires 16 Teraflops. NVIDIA GPUs you purchase at Best Buy can do 10 Teraflops.(ttps://www.top500.org/lists/2007/06/highlights/, http://www.bestbuy.com/site/evga-geforce-gtx-titan-x-12gb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-black/5550016.p?skuId=5550016)
- The NIH launches the Human Microbiome Project (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-launches-human-microbiome-project)
- Wikipedia had 1.5 million English articles. Today its around 5 million. (https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/01/english-wikipedia-surpasses-five-million-articles/)