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Technology: The Big Picture
(subtitled “So What? Why should YOU care?”)
Thad Crews, Jr.
Pecha Kucha Night 9/19/13
Western Kentucky University
Fall 2013
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One Slide History of the Electronic Computer
• ENIAC (built 1943 to 1946) contained 17,468 vacuum tubes.
• It weighed 30 tons and measured 8.5 ft. x 3 ft. x 80 ft. in size.
• It cost $500,000 (equivalent to ~$8,000,000 adjusted to today.)
One Slide History of the Electronic Computer
• ENIAC (built 1943 to 1946) contained 17,468 vacuum tubes.
• It weighed 30 tons and measured 8.5 ft. x 3 ft. x 80 ft. in size.
• It cost $500,000 (equivalent to ~$8,000,000 adjusted to today.)
Linear versus Exponential
Today over 100,000,000 transistors can fit onto
the head of a single pin
Source:
The Last 35 Years
IBM-PC (1980), Mac (1984), Web (1991), email (1993), Google (1998),
BlackBerry (1999), Wikipedia (2001), Facebook (2004), YouTube
(2005), Twitter (2006), iPhone (2007), Pinterest (2009), iPad (2010)
Actually…
We are only beginning to see the impact that digital
technology will have on our society in our lifetimes.
There will be more innovations in the next 35 years
than in the last 35 years.
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
Encyclopedia Britannica
Founded in 1768
122,264 articles
wikipedia.org
Founded in 2001
4,300,000+ articles
Topics Covered
4,500,000
4,000,000
3,500,000
3,000,000
2,500,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
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Britannica
Wikipedia
Cognitive Surplus
61% of young
consumers feel that
video ads are too long
and occur too often.
Forrester, 2007
Information
Natives
(rather than
Digital Natives)
ENIAC was digital
Students Have Information (or
they know how to get it)
Students Expect Knowledge
Students Need Wisdom