Greatest+Invention+of+the+19th+Century

How does technology change your life? Your job this week is impossibly simple. You will have three days to figure out what the most important invention of the 19 Century was. We will start off by doing another impossibly simple job -- defining the word technology by examining inventions from the 20th Century. On Thursday you will have 60 seconds to convince the class that the invention you chose is the most important of the 19th Century. This will be similar to the Pecha Kucha that we did last week. You must speak for no less than 55 seconds for it to count, and no more than 60. You must place three non-copyrighted pictures for your invention here ([|Flickr Creative Commons Images here] ). Questions for researching your invention will be here.

On Friday you will present to the class the most important invention of the year 2030. That's right, the invention that you will create for the world 22 years from now. You must bring in a visual for your invention.

http://www.invent.org http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004637.html

What is technology? What does it do for us? What technologies are around us? What type of knowledge was needed to create the an aforementioned technology? What drives the creation of new technologies?

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