Technology: The Big Picture (subtitled “So What? Why should YOU care?”) Thad Crews, Jr. Pecha Kucha Night 9/19/13 Western Kentucky University Fall 2013

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One Slide History of the Electronic Computer ENIAC (built 1943 to 1946) contained 17,468 vacuum tubes. It weighed 30 tons and measured 8.5 ft. x 3 ft. x 80 ft. in size. It cost $500,000 (equivalent to ~$8,000,000 adjusted to today.)

One Slide History of the Electronic Computer ENIAC (built 1943 to 1946) contained 17,468 vacuum tubes. It weighed 30 tons and measured 8.5 ft. x 3 ft. x 80 ft. in size. It cost $500,000 (equivalent to ~$8,000,000 adjusted to today.)

Linear versus Exponential

Today over 100,000,000 transistors can fit onto the head of a single pin Source:

The Last 35 Years IBM-PC (1980), Mac (1984), Web (1991), (1993), Google (1998), BlackBerry (1999), Wikipedia (2001), Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005), Twitter (2006), iPhone (2007), Pinterest (2009), iPad (2010)

Actually… We are only beginning to see the impact that digital technology will have on our society in our lifetimes. There will be more innovations in the next 35 years than in the last 35 years.

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

Encyclopedia Britannica Founded in ,264 articles

wikipedia.org Founded in ,300,000+ articles

Cognitive Surplus

61% of young consumers feel that video ads are too long and occur too often. Forrester, 2007

Information Natives (rather than Digital Natives) ENIAC was digital

Students Have Information (or they know how to get it) Students Expect Knowledge Students Need Wisdom Students Have Information (or they know how to get it) Students Expect Knowledge Students Need Wisdom