I turn 16 today! :) Haha. So happy! Though I don't feel any different, its great to be 16. lol. Random thoughts while checking my Facebook, lol. So I'm wondering how the world has changed in the last 16 years? Through technology, economy, etc. Stuff like what new computers have been invented, if cell phones were any different, who has been president etc.
Like I said, I know this is pretty random, I usually think pretty big. lol. But if you could give me a few things, that'd be great!
Please and thank you! :D
What has changed in the world in the last 16 years?
I think I have t-shirts that are old than you. In 1993, the internet was really just taking off. The first real browser was invented in 1993. Pagers were still common; however, restaurants hadn't started using them to page people when they waited. It was also the first year for the first somewhat smaller cell phones. So a quick run down: No Yahoo, No Google, No facebook, no social networking sites what-so-ever, and most average people still hadn't heard of the internet.
What has changed in the world in the last 16 years?
Happy Birthday!!!
Everything has changed big time! In addition to all the tech stuff, there is more fear in the world, more poverty, the US is no longer the manufacturing icon it used to be, but imports just about everything. Scary. The schools suck. More drugs, more gangs, more terrorism, more wars. Less compassion, less support for people who need help with anything: health care, jobs, childcare, taxes, etc. More ignorance and intolerance, less willingness to accept people who are different, more racism, homophobia, etc. The world is a big mess, and I don't see it getting any better.
Things in the last 16 years I can think of:
The internet wasn't as common. No one had Google and computers were still pretty expensive and the internet wasn't as big as it is now.
I don't think we had DVD players 16 years ago (maybe rich people)
Cell phones were pretty big compared to today
Wireless internet %26amp; laptops...not too common
Downloading music to an I-pod was not heard of yet
Those are all I can think of. Happy B-Day!
We formally left the period called the Industrial Revolution, and entered the period called the Information Age.
%26quot;America, the theory goes, is entering the Knowledge Age, as part of the %26quot;third wave%26quot; of history. The third wave is one where knowledge replaces matter -- natural resources, say -- as a source of power. And that power will flow through cyberspace (best defined as the space between computers connected [to other computers].%26quot; http://memex.org/gingrichcyber-revolutio鈥?/a>
Alvin Toffler was writing about it before anyone else knew about it:
%26quot;Alvin Toffler's book The Third Wave, published in 1980, used a historical perspective to argue that the transition from an industrial society (the Second Wave) to an information society (the Third Wave) can be best understood by looking back in time to the transition from the agricultural society (the First Wave) to the industrial society. Since then, many writers and futurists have joined in the study of the transition from the manufacturing-orientation of industrial society to the information- and knowledge-orientation of the Third Wave.%26quot; http://www.duke.edu/~mccann/info-soc.htm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
