1. Technology and Society Shamika Johnson Doug Schneider Jeff Payton

2. Lesson 1: Looking Back to See the Future -Inventions come along that change the way we live (telephone, car, computer) -The telephone, for example, is over 125 years old and has evolved from poor quality to high quality cell phones with GPS. -The point? Computers are still considered to be in the infancy stage, and many more surprises can be in store.

3. Lesson 2: Change Is All Around Us -Technology is coming at us so quickly that we should take time to assess the advantages and disadvantages -Questions to ask to better observe technological changes and their impact: 1. When did it come into your life? 2. Is it old technology with new digital features that significantly change it? 3. Is it something that required you and everyone else to learn new skills? 4. What kind of an impact is it having on society? 5. What potential is there to misuse it?

4. Tracking on the world wide web (www) o Analyzing o Rates o Budget 35%, or 3 hours of workday spent on the computer Various Devices o Smartphones o Voice Recognition o Cassette Recorder A New Way to Work: Living and working in the Digial World

5. Digital Revolution in Sports Digital Devices Track Progress Body Sensors Real-time Reporting

6. The Accelerating Rate of Change

7. Where is the future headed? Microprocessor's keep getting smaller and smaller, but at the same time, they are getting more and more powerful. Increased processing power would make speech recognition and gesture commands not only possible, but simple to do. speech recognitiongesture commands click here

8. How will people handle such a fast change? It took the telephone 38 years and television 17 years to win a place in 30 percent of U.S. homes. It took the Internet just 7 years to do the same.