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A Gift of Fire Fourth Ed Sara Baase

A Gift of Fire Fourth Ed Sara Baase. Chapter 1: Unwrapping the Gift. What We Will Cover. Rapid Pace of Change Change and Unexpected Developments Themes Ethics. 1.1 Rapid Pace of Change. 1940s: The first computer is built

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A Gift of Fire Fourth Ed Sara Baase

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  1. A Gift of FireFourth EdSara Baase Chapter 1: Unwrapping the Gift Slides prepared by Cyndi Chie and Sarah Frye/K Stewart 4th

  2. What We Will Cover • Rapid Pace of Change • Change and Unexpected Developments • Themes • Ethics

  3. 1.1 Rapid Pace of Change • 1940s: The first computer is built • 1956: First hard-disk drive weighed a ton and stored five megabytes • 1991: Space shuttle had a one-megahertz computer • 2006: Pocket devices hold a terabyte (one trillion bytes) of data • 2006: Automobiles can have 100-megahertz computers

  4. The US National Science Foundation has dramatic history of the Internet http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/ We need to see if audio is working in this room Did you see Watson on Jeopardy?http://youtu.be/seNkjYyG3gI

  5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2wQQ-xSE4s Watson’s mistake

  6. Rapid Pace of Change: Discussion Question • What devices are now computerized that were not originally? Think back 10, 20, 50 years ago. • I will post a Blackboard (Bb) reflection assignment this week that will ask you to place your own timeline over NSF’s Internet timeline – due by 05Sept

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