1. Evolution of Technology

2. Why do we use base 10?

3. Abacus China 3000 BC

4. Adding Machine Blaise Pascal 1642 Invented as a teenager Built 20

5. The Difference Engine Charles Babbage England 1833 Steam powered Lacked funding to complete the device

6. Office Technology 1850 - 1900 What was a bank like in 1850 ? They has lots of “Computers”.

7. Electricity Distribution Thomas Edison Incandescent Light 1882 NYC distribution “Con Edison” still powers NYC Also invented phonograph and motion pictures

8. Typewriter 1874 Remington – (Gun Manufacturer) Why QWERTY?

9. Cash Register 1880 John & James Ritty

10. Adding Machine 1885 William Borroughs

11. Programmable Punched Card Processing Machine US Census of 1890 tallied the U.S. Census in 6 weeks (as opposed to 7-10 years).

12. Communication

13. Telegraph 1844 Samuel Morse Washington to Baltimore “What hath God wrought?" … --- …

14. Telephone 1875 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish Boston University “Bell Telephone” was forced to split up in 1982 “Atlantic Bell” became Verizon

15. ENIAC – first electronic computer 1944 weighed 30 tons calculate artillery fire drew enough energy to dim the lights of Philadelphia when it was run operated at 5000 instructions per second

16. I.B.M. 1924 – International Business Machines New York Thomas J. Watson, Sr. instilled a strict, professional demeanor in his workers. spectacular success with its tabulating machines and the punch cards

17. I.B.M. launched its computer business in 1953 hired scientists leaving US war effort controlled 90% of computer industry thru 1970’s

18. Famous Quotes I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. -- Popular Mechanics, 1949

19. Triumph of the Nerds

20. The Internet Era

21. E-mail AOL – First popular ISP over phone. Advantages over “snail mail” – Free Voted the best FREE thing ever! – Instantaneous – Easily store everything – Search for specific words Disadvantages ? – Privacy ? – US Post Office loses more money every year

22. Searching the www How does it happen so fast? AOL and Yahoo – early search engines 15 Top Search engines Google – Massive search database Complex algorithm developed Is now a verb Larry Page and Sergey Brin – founders Who gets listed first?

23. Social Media My Space – what happened? Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg Top 15 Social Networking sites

24. The Mobile Computing Era

25. Online Maps & Location Sensors MapQuest –original Internet mapping service MapQuest How does mapping software work? – Latitude & Longitude – Where is location 0 ° lat - 0 ° long ? – http://maps.google.com http://maps.google.com – Database of all objects How does GPS work? – Detects distance from at least 3 satellites How does Wireless Location Sensing work? – Finds known “hotspots”

26. The “Cloud” What is it ? – Google Drive – iCloud Advantages vs Disadvantages ? – Convenience – Access to docs from any device – Security – Your files are “out there” inviting hackers – Traffic – Large data transfers can slow internet

27. US Cell Phone Usage

28. Worldwide

29. Artificial Intelligence

30. What happens when machines are smarter than people? The Singularity Elon Musk – founder of SpaceEx and Tesla – Open AI Open AI Self Driving Cars – http://comma.ai/ http://comma.ai/