UNIT 9 1-16

• Invention of silicon chips

• Portable

• Store huge amounts of information

• Invasion of privacy issues

• Computer controlled robots replace workers

• Cheaper products but reduces factory jobs

• Vaccines and antibiotics, organ transplants

• Next challenge: cures for cancer, AIDS, memory loss

• Rising medical cost, developing nations can not afford proper health care

Cars lead to increased traffic, smog, pollution, gridlock

Telephone, radio, television, satellites, the internet all keep people better informed

• Sputnik – the “Space Race”

• 1969- 1st man landed on the moon

• Space exploration has great prestige, military advancements, increased communication, very expensive

Einstein – no time framework for the universe

Heisenberg “uncertainty principle” – cannot determine the velocity of subatomic particles (1927)

Large Explosion

New Scientific Paradigms transformed human understanding of the world.

discovered by Alexander Fleming (penicillin)

produced food for earth’s growing population; Spread chemically and genetically enhanced forms of agriculture.

• Mid 1900s

• developed in the Soviet Union

• brought superpowers closer – stopped outbreaks (1952)

_____: 1st one implanted into Dr. Barney Clark in 1982

Energy Technologies

• The use of ____

• **__** power

  • Raised productivity and increased the production of material goods.

gave women greater control over fertility

Mosquitoes

Airborn

In water and food

Killed 20-40 million – made the world community more assertive toward disease

2014-2016 in Western Africa

Autoimmune disorder - 20 million have died because of it

Led to new responses by state and local governments including mandatory masking and vaccines

Diseases associated with Changing lifestyles