Makin The World Go Round

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TECHNOLOGY

• Makin The World Go Round

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1950s

• Sputnik 1- 1st artificial satellite in orbit by
  U.S.S.R
• Start of space race
• Lord of the Flies by William Gobling
• Jazz at peak
• Elvis steals the youth and condemned by the
  elderly
• I Love Lucy Gunsmoke
• Radios in obsolescence
• Rise in juvenile delinquency
• Beatniks
• The Day The Earth Stood Still
• Graffiti
• Racism
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Twilight Zone

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Swingin Sixties

• Feminism gay rights
• Free Speech Movement
• Marxism, communismterrorism
• Protest against Vietnam War
• Bob Dylan
• Woodstock
• Ham the chimp launched into outerspace
• JFK establishes Peace Corps
• Legendary Judy Garland concert in Carnegie Hall
• World Population counted at 3 billion
• Piper at the Gates of Dawn
• The Beatles-biggest musical act of the 20th
  century

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1970s

• Feminist Movement
• Contraceptives, pre-marital sex, divorce,
  single parents.
• Gay rights
• Star Wars
• All in the Family
• Experimental Classical Music
• Art rock progressive rock
• Genesis, Yes, Floyd, Stones, Zeppelin, Skynyrd,
  Queen, AC/DC, U2, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Kiss,
  Rush, Who, Doors, Europe, Bowie, Ramones, Sex
  Pistols, Clash
• Jazz Rock
• Miles Davis
• Saturday Night Fever
• Rocky, King Kong, Jaws 2

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1980s

• Personal computers, video games, mobile phones,
  compact discs.
• Microsoft releases first version of windows
• Space invaders, pac-man, donkey kong, frogger.
• Synthesizers and electronic music.
• Live Aid
• Issues concerned with political correctness
• Ronald Reagan and conservatism
• WWW created by Tim Berners Lee
• Computer technology in movies
• Fads
• Martial Arts in movies
• Rap

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1990s

• PARTH WAS BORN!
• Internet
• Seinfeld.
• Grunge
• Sonic The Hedgehog, Star Fox
• .com, windows 95/98, and e-mail
• Cell phones
• DVD
• Rise of social networking
• Cloning, Human Genome Project, DNA, Hubble Space
  Telescope, dark matter.
• Hip-Hop. Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG murdered
  mysteriously
• Alternative, Indie, Teen Pop, RB
• Reality TV, The Sims, Anime

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The New Millenium

• Terrorism
• Telecommunications, cell phones, internet
• Broadband
• Digital Audio Players (I.e. iPods)
• Blogs, Windows XP, DVR
• Wikipedia most popular encyclopedia
• File sharing
• TiVo
• GPS
• Abercrombie Fitch, American Eagle, Aeropostale,
  Hollister.
• Popped collar and tennis shirts
• Poker gets big

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Communication and the Individual

• With the advancement of communications
  technology, modes of communication are becoming
  more complex and sophisticated
• The advancement in communications technology
  provides people with immediate access to
  information and communication with others

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Interpersonal Communication

• more than personal face-to-face contact and
  postal mail
• Personal Computer in the early 1980s
• wide expansion of the internet in the 1990s
• electronic mail (e-mail) and communication via
  the internet (i.e. social networking sites,
  matching sites for singles, instant messenger)

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Social Networking Sites

• Myspace and Facebook are popular social
  networking sites aimed toward the younger
  generation but open to people of all ages
• Provides communication for friends, singles,
  matchmakers, families, business people,
  classmates and study partners

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Statistics

• 61 of 13- to 17-year-olds have a personal
  profile on a site such as MySpace, Friendster, or
  Xanga
• In 2005, 87 of surveyed young people stated that
  they use the internet
• 50 of young people with internet say they use it
  everyday
• Alexa Internet states that in July 2006, Myspace
  has become the worlds 4th most popular English
  language website and the 5th most popular in the
  world- social networking sites becoming
  increasingly popular

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• The internet technology becomes part of the human
  individual and the personality of the individual
• Social networking sites provides another
  opportunity to present yourself to the world
• New ways to fulfill the human nature of making
  connections with others and the outside world
• Transforms human relationships

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Myspace, Facebook, etc

• Options such as About Me, Whod Id Like to
  Meet, blog, profile image (picture), top
  friends, profile layouts (color, style,
  background, etc), and music can be changed to
  suit ones preference and allow to express ones
  individuality and personality
• Social networking sites represent yourself online
  and describes your personality
• Develop online personality

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• Teens talking in IM language show how attached
  they are to the internet and the correspondent
  technology (lol, omg, rofling, brb)
• The technology becomes part of the human being -
  people are described being addicted to such
  social networking sites as they become a part of
  the individual

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Cell Phones

• The U.S. Census Bureau claims that the number of
  cell phone subscribers in the U.S. reached 159
  million in 2003, up from 34 million in 1995 (cell
  phone use skyrocketed more than 300)
• Easy and faster method in communicating with
  other people

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Technology of Art

• Photography
• The photograph was invented in the 1830s
• Black White
• 1 copy
• 8 hours to develop
• The photo now is digital
• Color
• 500 copies
• Can be printed instantly
• Sent to anyone with a computer (email)

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Technology of Art

• Music
• 8 Track 1962
• Contains 8 songs
• Bulky
• Cassette Tapes 1968
• Contains 90 minutes
• Compact Disks (CDs) 1970, marketed in 1993
• Contains 120 minutes
• 4.8 inch disk
• MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) 1992
• iPod Nano
• 1,000 songs
• 1.5 ounces
• 1.6 x 3.5 x 0.27 inches

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Art Individuality

• Art is used to expresses yourself, your
  individuality
• The technology in Art changes the Art
• Artists express themselves better
• Photography
• easier to take pictures
• easier to print picture
• captures the image clearer, more realistic
• Audience uses the Art easier
• Music Devices
• smaller - more portable
• create clearer music
• carry more songs

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Culture and Individuality

• Cherokee
• European technology (such as guns) against which
  the Cherokee had no defense
• Cherokee medical technology was not equipped to
  deal with diseases such as Smallpox
• Mining towns pushed the Cherokee off of their
  lands

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Culture and Individuality

• China
• Traditional clothing and fabrics are being
  replaced by factory produced western clothing
• Christianity is becoming increasingly part of a
  culture that was previously based off of other
  religions
• Today there is a strong movement to change and
  modernize Chinese language.