Science and TEchnology in the new economy
The Personal Computer
- The most visible element of the technological revolution to most Americans was the dramatic growth in the use of computers in almost every area of life.
- The development of the microprocessor, first introduced in 1971 by Intel, which represented a notable advance in the technology of integrated circuitry.
- Apple launched its Apple II personal computer, the first such machine to be widely available to the public.
- 3 years later, Apple introduced its Macintosh computer technology, among other things.
- Computerized word processing replaced typewriters and spreadsheets revolutionized bookkeeping.
- The computer revolution created thousands of new, lucrative businesses: computer manufacturers themselves (IBM, Apple, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Sun, Digital, and many others).
- The Internet is, a vast, geographically far-flung network of computers that allows people connected to the network to communicate with others all over the world.
- In 1989, a laboratory in Geneva introduced the World Wide Web, through which individual users could publish information for the Internet, which helped establish an orderly system for both the distribution and retrieval of electronic information.
- Newspapers, magazines, and other publications have begun to publish on the Internet.
- The Human Genome Project set out to identify all of the more than 100,000 genes by 2005.
- Anti-Abortion advocates 20 denounced the research, claiming that it exploited unborn children.