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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.

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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

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Industrial Era 1750s - 1950s

• 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

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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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1900 aspirin, steam and electric automobiles1901 radio receiver1902 hybrid automobile, air conditioning1903 crayons, airplane, automatic rifle1904 consumer banking, tractor1905 theory of relativity1907 color photos, piloted helicopter1908 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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1970 floppy disk

1971 micro processor, VCR, eBooks, email

1972 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

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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

1987 3-D video games, DNA fingerprinting

1988 digital cell phones, Doppler radar

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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

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Paradigms 1900-1940s 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

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