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Toffler (1980), argued:  Clashing events and trends are interrelated patterns that evolve civilization.  When one wave dominates, future change is predictable.  When two waves of change overlap, the future looks shattered.  Understanding the past and current waves helps us be able to forecast future waves.  The direction and speed of waves determine the next age. 2

3 Agriculture Era 8000 B.C.- AD 1650 to 1750 decentralized economy human and animal muscle power renewable energy of wind, sun, and water necessary inventions survival based on harvest large extended families little mobility work at home and family businesses schooled at home focus on physical productivity production for own consumption and fused decentralized economy time measured with seasons

4 Industrial Era 1750s s fossil fuel energy large economic growth technological and economic structures built large machines replaced human and animal muscle steel, textile, railroads, industries and factories arose assembly lines, mass production, and interdependency mass public education nuclear families time measured with clocks lots of mobility social institutions production and consumption separated and a split centralized economy and government expansive institutional market men moved forward and women remained in the past role standardization significant and equaled efficiency

5 Information Era 1900s-present fossil fuels and renewable energy increased mass transportation instant communication computers, internet, cell phones collaboration and team work single parent and two working parent families more resources in schools focus on information and knowledge minimization

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aspirin, steam and electric automobiles 1901 radio receiver 1902 hybrid automobile, air conditioning 1903 crayons, airplane, automatic rifle 1904 consumer banking, tractor 1905 theory of relativity 1907 color photos, piloted helicopter 1908 assembly line for mass production

1910 film with audio, commercial hybrid truck 1913 x-ray 1914 World War 1, Panama Canal 1916 radio tuners, stainless steel, sub machine gun 1918 radio circuit 1919 short wave radio 19 th Amendment 8

1921 robot, fax 1922 insulin, 3-D movie 1923 frozen foods 1924 loud speaker, spiral notebooks 1925 mechanical television 1926 liquid fueled rockets 1927 electronic television, Technicolor 1928 penicillin, woman's’ vote equal to mans’ vote 1929 yo yo 9

1931 electronic microscope 1934 tape recorder 1935 radar 1936 voice recognition 1937 photocopier, jet engine 1938 ball point pen 1939 World War 11, turbo prop engine 10

1941 computer controlled software 1942 electronic digital computer, nuclear reaction 1945 Holocaust, atom bomb, hyper text 1946 microwave oven 1947 AK 47 assault rifle, mobile phone, Cold War, cable television, transistor 1948 Civil Rights Movement 1950 Korean War, credit card 11

1951 video tape recorder 1952 bar code, mass immunization 1953 DNA, transistor radio 1954 Brown v Board of Education Topeka, solar cell, USSR nuclear plant produced electricity 1955 nuclear submarine, optic fiber 1956 remote controls, hard disk, white out 1957 Vietnam War, polio vaccine 1958 Sputnik, Explorer 1, computer modem, laser 1959 pace maker, microchip 12

1961 manned space mission 1962 audio cassette 1963 video disk 1964 operating system mass produced 1965 compact disk, mini computer 1967 hand held calculator, organ transplant 1968 computer mouse, random access memory (RAM), 911 center 1969 moon landing, internet, ATM 13

1970 floppy disk 1971 micro processor, VCR, eBooks, word processor, video game 1973 World bank, gene splitting, Ethernet, Arab oil embargo 1975 laser printer, Microsoft 1977 MRI, Novel 1978 Google, spread sheet 1979 cell phone, walkman, human powered flight, super computer 14

1981 Space Shuttle, MS DOS, IBM PC 1982 human growth hormone genetically engineered, Adobe systems 1983 AIDS epidemic, Apple Lisa personal computer, Word Perfect, camcorder 1984 CD Rom, Apple Macintosh 1985 Windows program, genetically altered organism 1986 disposable camera, Chernobyl nuclear accident D video games, DNA fingerprinting 1988 digital cell phones, Doppler radar 15

1990 Persian gulf War, world wide web, Hubble telescope, Human Genome Project 1991 Soviet Union collapse, cold war ends 1993 Pentium processor 1994 Rwanda genocide 1995 Java 1996 sheep cloned 16

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Paradigms  s Physical science or media approach to educational technology  1940s-1960s Communications and systems approach to educational technology  1960s-1980s Behavioral sciences approach to educational technology  1980s-2000 Cognitive approach to educational technology 24

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