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- 2781: Military Technology
- ... industrialized world. Computers invaded in the following decades the lives of most people in various worksaving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Personal Computers (PCs). But the computer revolution also made its impact on other areas, which the bright scientists probably never anticipated. War has in all times been one of the main reasons that new inventions have been made, and the military was ...
- 2782: The Computer and Mass Communication
- ... 6). The emergence of cyberspace challenges the horizons and the habits of print- based culture. It is now more than five hundred years since the printing press was introduced, and with it came a social revolution in the Western world and the foundations of contemporary society (Spender, 1995). As Marshall McLuhan suggested in the 1960s, the content of any new medium is precisely the old medium that it has replaced; and ...
- 2783: Reality - What It Is And How It Works
- ... see what your kitchen will look like before you actually refurnish could help you save from costly mistakes in the future. The entertainment industry stands to gain a lot from VR. With the video game revolution of bigger and better games coming out all the time, this could be the biggest breakthrough ever. It would be fantastic to have sword fights which actually feel real. As well, virtual movies (also called ...
- 2784: Teletubbies
- ... enhanced learning tools educate children and also give exposure of technology which children will soon face everywhere. This toy truly fits the times that we live in, and it is a topnotch product of recent revolution in toy industry; computerized toys equipped with artificial intelligence.
- 2785: Real Face Of Terrorism
- ... one of coercion but of revenge. The hostage crisis at the American embassy in Teheran twenty years ago was another example of terrorism based on revenge. While that incident involved the political theme of the revolution in Iran and the authorities used it to promote their Islamic ideology, those that carried out the hostage crisis took over the embassy in a fit of rage and under the euphoria of anger against ...
- 2786: The Internet Contributes To The Process Of Globalization
- ... is lot of controversy surrounding the amount of English on the Net. This is not an issue - English is not an oppressive force but a translative machine. It is possible some languages will become marginalized (French as the Latin of the 21st century) however it is unlikely that the world will become all Anglo-Saxon. The US does dominate the world of images and icons. Cindy Crawford and Pocahontas analogized to ...
- 2787: History of the Propeller
- ... Vinci. Da Vincis helical screw helicopter is believed to be the ancestor of the air propeller and the helicopter rotor. The first idea of a propulsive airscrew, however, belongs to J.P. Paucton, a French mathematician. Paucton envisioned a flying machine that had two airscrews, one for propulsion and the other for sustaining flight. The idea of using an airscrew for propulsion was utilized during the late 1700s to ...
- 2788: Censor the Internet?
- ... under all forms of government. In France, a country where the press generally has a large amount of freedom, the Internet has been in the spotlight. A banned book on the health History of former French president Francois Mitterrand was republished electronically on the World Wide Web (www). To enforce censorship of the Internet, free societies find that they are becoming more closed, and closed societies find new ways to crush ...
- 2789: America and the Computer Industry
- ... for many other tasks (Osborne, 146). In 1971 Marcian E. Hoff, Jr., an engineer at the Intel Corporation, invented the microprocessor and another stage in the deveopment of the computer began (Shallis, 121). A new revolution in computer hardware was now well under way, involving miniaturization of computer-logic circuitry and of component manufacture by what are called large-scale integration techniques. In the 1950s it was realized that "scaling down ...
- 2790: The Internet
- ... various opinions about the internet, some of us live by it using it continuously. However, there are those who think the internet is the worst thing that ever happened the world, and that the technological revolution has gone too far. Regardless, the fact is that the number of users of the internet is increasing by the millions yearly. In only a couple of decades, the internet has had quite an impact ...
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