1. Technology and Globalization

2. Take a minute...
Talk with the people around you. What piece of technology do you think makes your life easier?

3. Aerospace Technology and Exploration
Hubble Space Telescope
Uses optical scanner to research stars births and deaths, black holes
1995 first woman flies a space shuttle
Eileen Collins
Kennedy Space Station Processing Facility
had the most international participation for below
1998 International Space Station (finished in 2011)
How could these improve your quality of life?

4. Information Technology
First affordable personal computer in 1980s
CD ROM and DVD player s
Google created in 1998
USB in 2000
First camera phone 2000
IPhone 2007, Macbook Air 2008
First Ipod 2001
Steve Jobs!
2015 Apple Watch

5. 1990s cell phone commercial

6. First Ipod Commercial

7. Global Positioning System (GPS)
Created by Department of Defense
First Navigation System with Timing and Ranging satellite 1978
24 satellite system completed and fully operational 1993
Owned by the government, operated by the US Air Force

8. 1994 GPS system (one of the first commercials!)

9. Free Enterprise System
What is it?
Govt has few restrictions on business activity or ownership that citizens participate in
Free market/capitalism has this
How do you think this drives technological innovation?

10. Exit Ticket What is globalization?
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale
Using your knowledge from today, what piece of technology do you think represents globalization the best and why? MUST be at least 3 sentences!