Transcript A Gift of Fire Fourth Ed Sara Baase

A Gift of Fire
Fourth Ed
Sara Baase
Chapter 1: Unwrapping the Gift
Slides prepared by Cyndi Chie and Sarah Frye/K Stewart 4th
What We Will Cover
1. Rapid Pace of Change
2. Change and Unexpected
Developments
3. Themes
4. Ethics
1.1 Rapid Pace of Change
• 1940s: The first computer is built
• 1956: First hard-disk drive weighed a ton and
stored five megabytes
• 1991: Space shuttle had a one-megahertz
computer
• 2006: Pocket devices hold a terabyte (one
trillion bytes) of data
• 2006: Automobiles can have 100-megahertz
computers
The US National Science
Foundation has dramatic
history of the Internet
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/
We need to see if audio is working in this room
Did you see Watson on Jeopardy?
http://youtu.be/seNkjYyG3gI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2wQQ-xSE4s
Watson’s mistake
Rapid Pace of Change:
Discussion Question
• What devices are now computerized
that were not originally? Think back 10,
20, 50 years ago.
• I will post a Blackboard (Bb) reflection
assignment this week that will ask you
to place your own timeline over NSF’s
Internet timeline – due by 05Sept