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The Computer Revolution
Invention of silicon chips
Portable
Store huge amounts of information
Invasion of privacy issues
Automation and Science
Computer controlled robots replace workers
Cheaper products but reduces factory jobs
Vaccines and antibiotics, organ transplants
Next challenge: cures for cancer, AIDS, memory loss
Rising medical cost, developing nations can not afford proper health care
Transportation Advances
Cars lead to increased traffic, smog, pollution, gridlock
Communication Advances
Telephone, radio, television, satellites, the internet all keep people better informed
Space Exploration
Sputnik – the “Space Race”
1969- 1st man landed on the moon
Space exploration has great prestige, military advancements, increased communication, very expensive
Theory of Relativity
Einstein – no time framework for the universe
Quantum Mechanics
Heisenberg “uncertainty principle” – cannot determine the velocity of subatomic particles (1927)
The Big Bang Theory
Large Explosion
Psychology
New Scientific Paradigms transformed human understanding of the world.
Antibiotics
discovered by Alexander Fleming (penicillin)
The Green Revolution
produced food for earth’s growing population; Spread chemically and genetically enhanced forms of agriculture.
Polio Vaccine
Mid 1900s
developed in the Soviet Union
brought superpowers closer – stopped outbreaks (1952)
Jarvik Heart
_____: 1st one implanted into Dr. Barney Clark in 1982
Oil and Nuclear Energy
Energy Technologies
The use of ____
**__** power
Raised productivity and increased the production of material goods.
Birth Control
gave women greater control over fertility
Malaria
Mosquitoes
Tuberculosis
Airborn
Cholera
In water and food
1918 Influenza Epidemic
Killed 20-40 million – made the world community more assertive toward disease
Ebola
2014-2016 in Western Africa
HIV/AIDS
Autoimmune disorder - 20 million have died because of it
Covid-19
Led to new responses by state and local governments including mandatory masking and vaccines
Diabetes, Heart Diseases, and Alzheimer’s Disease
Diseases associated with Changing lifestyles
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