Well, i'm feeling really lazy, so......with minimal effort;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s[q]echnology
While personal computers did not become widespread in the developed world until the 1980s, rapid advances in consumer electronics began to impact the marketplace by the middle of the decade.
* Microprocessors are developed - used first in industrial applications and after that also in consumer products
* Pocket calculators make the slide rule obsolete
* Home computer revolution starts
* Video game arcades, and later, consoles, become popular
* Unix created along with C programming language
* Microsoft is founded (1975)
* Touch tone telephones begin to replace rotary dials
* Digital watches and clocks become available to consumers
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Science
Space exploration, both manned and unmanned, continued into the 1970s, with the realization of lunar and interplanetary missions and the launching of interstellar Pioneer spacecraft.
* Apollo voyages to the moon continue
* Viking missions to Mars
* Venera missions to Venus
* Voyager spacecraft launched to explore the outer solar system
* Skylab and Salyut space stations
* The Space Shuttle is developed (first launched in 1981).
* Homo ergaster discovered; Homo rudolfensis skull unearthed at Koobi Fora but identified as Homo habilis
* Discovery of the bottom quark; theory of quantum chromodynamics postulated to describe the strong interaction, one of the four fundamental forces of nature
* Southern blot genetics technique developed
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