Welcome Back Day 2

CLASS EXPECTATIONS

 FOLLOW ALL CLASSROOM RULES

 RESTROOM

 HANDBOOK POLICIES

 GRADES

 COLLEGE PREP

 FAFSA

 SCHOLARSHIPS

 FOLDER CHECKS

 KAHOOT / QUIZIZZ

4 ERAS OF TECHNOLOGY

 STONE AGE -600,000BC – 8000BC

 AGRICULTURE 8000BC – 1700AD

 INDUSTRIAL 1700AD-1900AD

 INFORMATION 1950-PRESENT

Industrial Era (1700-1900)

 Development of steam powered machinery

 Factories are formed

 Mass production of goods (Automobile)

 Assembly line (interchangeable parts)

 Pollution!!!!! (new technologies create new

problems)

 New roads, waterways, and railroads

 Urbanization (cities are forming)

Informational Era (1940-??)

 Transistors

Electronic equipment

 Big and expensive

 Integrated Circuit

Made it possible to put thousands of tiny

transistors on a computer chip

 Smaller and less expensive

 Possible for everyone to own a computer

 Networks lead to the internet

Informational Era (1940-??)

 Independence

Can travel anywhere in the world

Cell phones and internet make it possible to

communicate from almost anywhere

Goods and services are easily attainable

The Next Era?

 Age of Automation

 the use of machines to perform tasks without

human supervision

 Age of Leisure

 Will there be manual labor?

 Age of Knowledge

 Will we know all there is to know?

 Space age

 Meet George Jetson?