"it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one...

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the

one most responsive to

change." ~Charles Darwin

Evolution of Technology2009 change

change…change

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Not-so-Famous Last Words

• "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.“~Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

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CURRENT ISSUES in MANAGEMENT

Change change change…

I’m Jennie! I will be your guide on ourjourney. Technology is a metaphor for the changes in EVERYTHING else!

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Evolution and Technology

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VISTA

• Variation

• Inheritance

• Selection

• Time

• Adaptation

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WOW!!!this was only 56years ago!

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Can’t imagineIt now….

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More change….

the laptop

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A Brief Summary of the Evolution of the Internet

1945

2008

Memex Conceived

1945

WWWCreated

1989

MosaicCreated

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A Mathematical

Theory of Communication

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First Vast ComputerNetwork

Envisioned1962

ARPANET1969

TCP/IPCreated

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InternetNamed

and Goes

TCP/IP1984Hypertext

Invented1965

Age ofeCommerce

Begins1995

Copyright 2002, William F. Slater, III, Chicago, IL, USA

Internet Boom & Bust2001

SiliconChip1958

Web 2.02003 –2008

Packet Switching Invented

1964

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Early Developers

Vannevar Bush Claude Shannon J. C. R. Licklider

Paul Baran

Ted Nelson

Leonard Kleinrock

Lawrence RobertsSteve Crocker

Jon Postel

Vinton Cerf

Robert Kahn

Tim Berners-Lee

Mark Andreesen

Esther Dyson

Bob Metcalfe

Early Developers

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Grow, growing, grooooooowing…

• Users in almost 200 countries around the world are now connected to the Internet.

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Technology Trends

Computing power

will double in

power and

halve in price

every 18 months

Moore’s LawPrice of Price of ComputingComputing

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Internet Growth Trends• 1977: 111 hosts on Internet• 1981: 213 hosts• 1983: 562 hosts• 1984: 1,000 hosts• 1986: 5,000 hosts• 1987: 10,000 hosts• 1989: 100,000 hosts• 1992: 1,000,000 hosts• 2001: 150 – 175 million hosts• 2002: over 200 million hosts• By 2010, about 80% of the planet will be on the Internet

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You are here

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Web 2.0

• second generation of Web-based services

• Communication tools

• Collaborative technologies

• Social networking sites

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~ Tim O’Reilly• "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the

computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this:

• Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.“

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