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Fellow futurists revisit Alvin Toffler's Future Shock theorieshttp://www.metafuture.org/articlesbycolleagues/RichardSlaughter/futureshock.htm
video conferencing, video phones, e-readers, portable technologies, holographic communicationhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12940322/ns/business-forbescom
Calculators in the classroom have generated much discussion and debate about the impact of this tool in math educationhttp://www.math.wichita.edu/history/Topics/calculators.html#calc
The overhead projector ushered in multimedia tools in the class, offices and business.http://www.ehow.com/about_6406261_background-information-overhead-projectors.html
A precursor to a computer, the Harvard Mark 1, was "a room-sized, relay-based calculator"http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
Television presented at World's Fair by RCAhttp://framemaster.tripod.com/1939wf.html
First radio broadcast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniahttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt20ra.html
credit cards FAFSA online applicationshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/view/#rest
compulsory education home schooling television in the classroom zone of proximal development e-learning discussion forums, collaborative learning multiple intelligence/emotional intelligence http://www.learning-theories.com/vygotskys-social-learning-theory.html
events that influenced societal behavior and thinking- Political debates http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=kennedy-nixon http://www.museum.tv/debateweb/html/equalizer/essay_polyprocesstv.htm
technological innovations that impacted society- educationhttp://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/multimedia-classroom
experimental message sent via telegraph between Washington, DC and Baltimore, Marylandhttp://photo2.si.edu/infoage/infoage.html
Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin automated a human-intensive labor.http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/cotton_gin.htm
The three waves of development: 1. the agricultural age 800B.C - mid -1700s 2. industrial age 1650- 1955 3. information age 1955-1990 http://www.alvintoffler.net/?fa=bios http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb643297.aspx