Technology: The Big Picture (subtitled “So What? Why should YOU care?”)

1. Technology: The Big Picture(subtitled “So What? Why should YOU care?”) Thad Crews, Jr. PechaKucha Night 9/19/13 Western Kentucky University Fall 2013

2. LOL ROTF KHUF JKIMTUFMP

3. One Slide History of the Electronic Computer • ENIAC (built 1943 to 1946) contained 17,468 vacuum tubes. • It weighed 30 tons and measured 8.5 ft. x 3 ft. x 80 ft. in size. • It cost $500,000 (equivalent to ~$8,000,000 adjusted to today.)

4. One Slide History of the Electronic Computer • ENIAC (built 1943 to 1946) contained 17,468 vacuum tubes. • It weighed 30 tons and measured 8.5 ft. x 3 ft. x 80 ft. in size. • It cost $500,000 (equivalent to ~$8,000,000 adjusted to today.)

5. Linear versus Exponential

6. Today over 100,000,000 transistors can fit onto the head of a single pin Source:

7. The Last 35 YearsIBM-PC (1980), Mac (1984), Web (1991), email (1993), Google (1998), BlackBerry (1999), Wikipedia (2001), Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005), Twitter (2006), iPhone (2007), Pinterest (2009), iPad (2010)

8. Actually…We are only beginning to see the impact that digital technology will have on our society in our lifetimes. There will be more innovations in the next 35 years than in the last 35 years.

10. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

11. Encyclopedia Britannica Founded in 1768 122,264 articles

12. wikipedia.org Founded in 2001 4,300,000+ articles

14. Cognitive Surplus

17. 61% of young consumers feel that video ads are too long and occur too often. Forrester, 2007

18. Information Natives (rather than Digital Natives) ENIAC was digital

19. Students HaveInformation (or they know how to get it) Students Expect Knowledge Students Need Wisdom