Information Revolution , livre ebook

R eader ’ s Gu ide
1 . Wh y did cable t ele visio n b ecom e more pop ul a r in
the 1980s?
2 . H ow was co mmunica tion differen t befor e t he
Infor mat ion R e volut ion?
3 . Descr ibe T im B erners-Lee ’ s im p act on the in ternet.
4 . The first fully funct io ning com pu ter was b ui l t in
1946. Wh y do yo u t hink it t o ok m or e t ha n 30years
fo r comp uter s to a ppear in busines s es a nd ho mes?
5 . Whic h p a rt of the In fo r ma tion Revol ution has had
the bigges t impact on yo ur life? J ustif y y our ch oice.
6 . Bra inst orm ideas fo r a new de vice o r system
that ca n b e used to ca use the next Inf orma tion
Revolu tion. Explain to a friend ho w your device
or sys tem would wo rk and wh y you think it
isnecessar y .
 

St e phanie Kraus
THE
I NFORMATI ON
Revol u t ion
Revol u t ion
 

Consultan t
Jennifer M. Lopez, NBCT , M.S.Ed.
T eacher Specialist—History/Social Studies
Office of Curriculum & Instruction
Norfolk Public Schools
Publishing Credits
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Image Credits: front co ver , p.1 F rank Martin/BIPs/Getty Images; p.5
(top) Internet Archive; p .5 (bottom) Paul Coulomb; p .6 W indell Osk ay/
Flickr; p.7 (all) U .S. Ar m y; p.8 AlisonW; p .9 Thomas Nguyen; p.10 (right)
NASA; p.11 Bettmann/Getty Images; p.12 (both) Andrew "F astLizard4"
Adams; p .13 (left) Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty I mages;
p.14 (left) Roberto Brosan, George Segal (sculpture) for TIME; p.14
(right) secretlondon123/Flickr; p.16 (left) Museum of Applied Arts &
Sciences, Australia; pp .16?17 Sal V eder/AP Photo; p.17 (right) Raneko/
Flickr; p.18 Julie Deshaies/Shutterstock; p .19 (top) Doug Wilson/Corbis
via Getty Images; p.19 (bottom) Ruben de Rijcke; p.20 CERN/Science
Source; p.21 (right) Tim Berners-Lee for CERN; p .22 (left) FPS/Newscom;
p.22 (right) T om Kelley Archive/iStock; p.23 F eature Photo Service/
Newscom; p .25 MailHamdi/Shutterstock; p.28 Ken Wolter/Shutterstock;
p.32 (right) Casimir o PT/Shutterstock; all other images from iStock and/
or Shutterstock.
Library of Congress Ca taloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kraus, Stephanie, author .
Title: The information revolution / Stephanie Kraus.
Description: First edition. | Huntington Beach : T eacher Created Materials,
2019. | Includes index. | Audience: Ages 7. | Audienc e: Grades 2-3. |
Summary : "T oday , it's hard to imagine life without smartphones and the
internet. But those technologies wer en't around 50 years ago. Between
1950 and 2001, the development of technology changed the world . Not only
did it revolutionize the wa y humans communicate and share inf ormation,
it changed the world's economy . T his time became known as the
Information Revolution"-- Pr ovided by publisher.
Identifiers: L CCN 2019024412 (print) | LC CN 2019024413 (ebook) | ISBN
9781425850777 (paperback) | ISBN 9781425850777 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: T elecommunication--History--Juvenile literature . |
Information technology--History--Juvenile literatur e.
Classification: L CC TK5102.2 .K73 2019 (print) | L CC TK5102.2 (ebook) |
DDC 303.48/33--dc23
L C record av ailable at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019024412
L C ebook record av ailable at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019024413
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T a bl e of C o nt e n ts
I n for mat ion at Ou r Fi ng er t ip s ........................... 4
New T ec h nolog y .................................................. 6
Ap pl e , W i n do ws, & t he W or ld Wi de W eb ..... 16
Eco n omi c G ro w t h ............................................. 22
e F utu r e of T echnol og y ................................ 26
S t a ge It ! ............................................................... 28
Glo ss a r y .............................................................. 30
I nde x ................................................................... 31
Y o ur T urn ! .......................................................... 32
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