Homework assginment for CTS 125

1. How technology has changed the way
we live, work and learn.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Fifty years ago our telephone backbone only
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reached about 65% of the people within the
United States.
Most all telephone users had to have operator
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assistance to dial locally or long distance.
http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3625
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5. Only thirty years ago we had ARPANET but
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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.

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

7. Twenty years ago the Internet existed but not
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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_his
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tory/internet_history_80s.shtml

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

9. Only ten years ago almost 104 million people in
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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-
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mkt.com/cellphonefacts.html

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

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

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

13. Cell phone manufactures already have shown
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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/le
http://mobiletvpro.com/
arn/messaging-

14. The Internet has truly changed the way we
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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.

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