21ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGY

How technology has changed the way we live, work and

learn.

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Think of how today’s technology has changed the way we live, learn and work. Just take a second and really think of all the ways we communicate today.

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Some of today’s forms of communications got their start in the 20th Century. But you would find it surprising how many started in the 19th Century.

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Fifty years ago our telephone backbone only reached about 65% of the people within the United States.

Most all telephone users had to have operator assistance to dial locally or long distance.

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Only thirty years ago we had ARPANET but no Internet and our means of communication was a lot different. We actually wrote letters, but telephones were being used more and were becoming easier to dial out of your area.

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Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola, made the first US analog mobile phone call on a larger prototype model in 1973.

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Twenty years ago the Internet existed but not as we know it today. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposes a hypertext system that will run across the Internet on different operating systems. This was the World Wide Web.

http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_80s.shtml

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Berners-Lee's diagram describing 'hypertext'Tim Berners-Lee

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Only ten years ago almost 104 million people in the US (and more than 500 million worldwide) owned a mobile phone, some who even removed their physical phone line from their home opting to use their cellular number for all calls.

http://www.global-source-mkt.com/cellphonefacts.html

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Now Cell phones have become mainstream and choices come in all shapes and sizes…

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You see as many people today texting or surfing on their phone than you do actually talking on it.

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Today the Internet is used for so many things such as buying a house or car. You can even order dinner from pizza to cuisine and have it brought to your doorstep.

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Cell phone manufactures already have shown the abilities of technology that make your phone a multimedia experience. Well get ready for TV and video messaging, its here already and will make it to your hands very soon.

http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/messaging-internet/messaging/

http://mobiletvpro.com/

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The Internet has truly changed the way we learn. You have resources greater than any encyclopedia could ever have. Think of it as your own Library which is constantly being updated every day you live.

Thank you for your attention and I hope this was a fun and interesting look at how technology has changed the way we live, learn and work. Terry Payne CTS-125-80.