By Stephanie Williams
9-15-11
Beginning in the late 1970s and still
continuing, changes in computer
and telecommunications technology
have transformed how people live
and work.
 Electronic computers began after World
War II (1940s). Computer technology has
advanced greatly sense 1980s.
 The first electronic computer was the http://www.businessblogshub.com/2010/10/the-applecomputer-in-design-30-years-in-2-minutes/
ENIAC in 1959.
 Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak
completed a small computer for personal
use. In 1976 they founded the Apple
computer and finished it and the Apple II
the following year. This was the first massproduced personal computer to use a
mouse and on-screen icons. The success
of the Apple made competition intense in
the computer industry.
http://www.onemoregadget.com/pictorialtimeline-of-apple-macintosh-computers-gadgets The late 1990s workers used home
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computers and E-mail to telecommute.
ENIAC
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Microprocessors made small phones by combining
wireless access to the internet, views text messages,
photos and videos.
1996 congress passed the telecommunication act, which
allowed phone companies to compete with each other
and to send television signals. This led to many new
technologies to be developed.
A major telecommunication was the cell phone. In the
1990s they became less expensive, this allowing more
people to buy the phones. Phones became very popular
and were wide spread by the 2000s
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In 1969 the U.S. Defense Department’s
Advanced Research Project created a
system of networked computers.
ARPANET was the system, it linked
computers at government agencies,
defense contractors, and some
universities.
Researches at CERN developed the World
Wide Web or know as WWW. This is not
the same as the internet but uses
hypertext and can accessed with software
known as a web browser. With this it
allows users to click on links to go from
cite to cite.
The internet created quick access to
information and allowed communication
world wide.
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 The cloning controversy
of the 1990s created
concerns about bioethics.
 A sheep was cloned that
created the possibility of
the practice in humans
for replacement organs.
 The sheep was named
dolly and was cloned in
1997.
 The method is to use
DNA/RNA from living
things and implant it into
other cells.
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Steam Cell Research
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Steam Cell Research refers to the
concept of using humans steam
cells to repair or to make entirely
new cells. Usually they use
embryonic cells or umbilical cord
cells.
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The issue of stem cell research
burst on the scientific scene in
November of 1998 when
researchers first reported the
isolation of human embryonic
stem cells.
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This discovery was made by Dr.
James Thomason.
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There was a ethical dispute by
hESC research. They say that
human life begins as soon as an
egg is fertilized, and they consider
a human embryo to be a human
being. They therefore consider
any research that necessitates the
destruction of a human embryo to
be morally abhorrent
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