4. Alternating Current Power Plant at World's Fair, Chicago,
1893.
5. THE DAWN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
6. Now Explain the Year 2000
7. THE DAWN OF THE 21ST CENTURY
8. Person of the Century
9. He was the pre-eminent scientist in a century dominated by
science. The touchstones of the era the Bomb, the Big Bang, quantum
physics and electronics all bear his imprint.
10. Albert Einstein 1879-1955
11. uncertainty principle Revolutio special theory of
relativity model of the atom theory of continental drift big bang
theory quantum theory discovery of the positron, neutron nuclear
chain reaction discovery of the electron
12. Technology revolutions have this remarkable ability of
being nearly invisible but yet so obvious right in front us.
13. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic ! rd Law - Arthur C. Clarks 3
14. Study Exercise What is technology? Please provide a
deniBon: 15
15. What is Technology?
16. Is this Technology?
17. All Technology was once new?
18. All Technology was once new?
19. Technology in the 15
20. Bartolomeo Cristofori 1655-1731
21. Nocturne Op. 9 No 2 Frdric Chopin 1810-1849
22. Technology ! Techne is greek for art or skill Logos is
greek for word, speech
23. The Effects of Good Government, a fresco in the City Hall
of Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338.
24. The word technology was used in 1801 by Johann Beckmann
(1739-1811), a German scientific author
25. Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants
26. Definition of Technology
27. Technology Process by which an organization transforms
labor, capital, material, and information into products and
services of greater values
28. Product Performance The value you get out of a product for
which you have paid some cost
29. 1977 Apple II $1,298 4.000 bytes memory Motorola 6502 1MHz
2007 iMac 17-inch $1,199 1.000.000.000 bytes memory Intel
2.0GHz
30. 2000 2010 iMac iPhone Mac OS 9.0.4 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU,
128MB Memory Screen - 786K pixels Storage - 30GB Hard Drive iOS 4.0
1 Ghz ARM A4 CPU, 512MB Memory Screen - 614K pixels Storage - 32GB
Flash Drive Source: Ars Technical Images: Apple 39
31. Innovation The change in the technology
32. Evolution of the human brain
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