roosevelt middle school technology education technology eras
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Roosevelt Middle SchoolTechnology Education
Technology Eras
Primitive Era (600,000 b.c.) The First Technology: Making Tools?
• Wood• Stone• Animal bones
Discovered how to make fire Families were small (life expectancy
is very low)
Agricultural Era (8,000 b.c.) Raising crops and animals
• Larger food supply leads to larger families
Civilizations started to be formed• Ruralization
Natural resources started being used• Wind • Water • Gravity
Industrial Era (1700-1900) Development of steam powered
machinery Factories are formed
• Mass production of goods (Automobile)• Assembly line (interchangeable parts)• Pollution!!!!! (new technologies create new
problems) New roads, waterways, and railroads
• Urbanization (cities are forming)
Informational Era (1940-??) Transistors
Electronic equipment• Big and expensive
Integrated Circuit Made it possible to put thousands of
tiny transistors on a computer chip• Smaller and less expensive• Possible for everyone to own a computer• Networks lead to the internet
Informational Era (1940-??) Independence
Can travel anywhere in the world Cell phones and internet make it
possible to communicate from almost anywhere
Goods and services are easily attainable
The Next Era? Age of Automation
• the use of machines to perform tasks without human supervision
Age of Leisure• Will there be manual labor?
Age of Knowledge• Will we know all there is to know?
Space age• Meet George Jetson?
Are the eras getting quicker? Our knowledge is growing at an exponential rate.
• exponential growth starts out being in a period of slow growth and then quickly changes over to rapid growth with a characteristic doubling over a period of time
Would you rather receive money exponentially or linearly (always adding the same amount)?
Technology Eras Primitive Era Agricultural Era Industrial Era Informational Era ????????
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