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Synthesis Matrix Template
Research Question: How are Generations effected by technology in today’s society?
Staff
Generations/
Generation
Gaps?
Computers/
Technology
Communication
Society/
Parents/
Lifestyle
First Generation
(1940-1956)
Vacuum Tubes
First computers
generated a lot
of heat, took up
entire rooms,
super expensive,
lowest level of
programming
and used punch
card system.
First computers
didn’t have screens,
they displays were
on printout.
Second Computers
could store
information.
First
computers
only used by
the
government,
scientist, and
businesses.
Third generation
computers you
could actually see
what you were
working on and fix
errors before print
out.
Second
computers
were
developed for
the atomic
energy
industry.
Second
Generation
(1956-1963)
Transistors
Third
Generation
(1964-1971)
Integrated
Circuits
Second
Computers
replaced
vacuum tubes
Fourth
with transistors
Generation
thus allowing
(1971-Present) computers to be
Microprocessors smaller, use less,
heat, and new
Fifth
innovation had
Generation
great
(Present and
improvement
in
Beyond)
programming.
Artificial
Intelligence
Third
Generation
computers used
integrated
circuits, which
are miniaturized
transistors.
Decrease size
and improved
speed. Added
keyboard, and
monitors.
Fourth Generation
we see the home
P.C. so you can talk
and communicate
with friends and
strangers via the
internet.
Fifth Generation
we don’t have full
use of the
technology yet but
a glimpse of it is
SIRI on cell
phones.
Third
computers
were more
mainstream
for all
companies
and business
or public
entities.
Fourth
generation
computers
were made for
the home
user. Are the
computers we
use today, just
a lot more
advanced and
faster.
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Fourth
Generation we
have
microprocessors
and the
development of
the CPU
(central
processing unit).
Way smaller and
Cheaper.
Fourth
Generation
has birth the
use of social
networks and
everything in
between.
Fifth
Generation is
mostly just
used by the
government
and military.
Fifth
Generation
computers are
ones that have a
type of brain,
you can see this
in voice
recognition
devices. Also,
they are
inventing new
super
computers
which are
already in use
by the
government.
Henseler
Baby Boomers
“Gen X is the
Millennials
master of
maximizing the
functional
benefits of
technology”
Generation X
Generation Z
“Boomers and
Millennials are
also each other's
children and
parents, bound
together in an
intricate web of
love, support,
anxiety,
resentment, and
interdependence.”
Millennials
and their
parents are
brought a bit
closer because
technology
took off in
their mid lives
and their
children grew
up with its
emergence so
they share a
type of
common
group or bond
because of
technology.
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Sapolin
Millennials
Boomers
Gen Y’ers
The Boomers
don’t really use
modern
technology but
they enjoy
television and
the luxury of
ordering food
over the phone.
“Millennials
generally feel that
boomers have, and
show, greater
wisdom, -- but not
necessarily in all
areas of life”
“It recently
struck me
how quick
we are to
generalize
about entire
generations
and spark
polarized,
often meanspirited,
viewpoints,
instead of
fostering
more
balanced,
openminded
perspectives”
The MTV is
permanently
plugged into a
network of
digital devise.
Social Networks
(Instagram,
Facebook, Twitter,
Snapchat, etc.)
“Being sent to
“Devices and their
The entire
world is at their
fingertips.
your bedroom
used to be a
punishment:
now it's a teen
dream.”
uses displace the
real and the virtual,
creating a world
where you can be
who you want to
be”
“Young, early
adopters have
become used
to instant
gratification”
Millennials are
enjoying the
same
technology as
the Gen
y’er( cell phone
and other
handheld
devices) but not
to their full
potential.
Hanman
MTV
Generation
(ages 16 to 24)
VH1
Generation
(ages 25 to 44)
“Technologies
certainly do
create cultural
phenomenon,
whether for
good or for ill”
The VH1 has
access to all the
same
technology but
does not live in
the digital world
created by
technology. The
VH1 generation
is said to be oldfashion in the
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ways of
technology.
Tirado
Silent
Generation/
Veterans (19371945)
Only the
government had
computers and
a few scientist.
Baby Boomers
(1946-1964)
Punch-card
system
computers went
into financial
institutions and
businesses
Generation X
(1965-1976)
Generation Y/
Millenials
(1977-1992)
Rotary Phones,
one-to-one, memo
writing
WW2, Great
Depression,
Space age.
Touch-tone
phones, letters
Civil Rights,
Cold War,
Space Travel,
Vietnam War,
2nd highest
divorce rate
Cell phones, letters
Internet,
smartphones, email
Watergate,
Latchkey
Kids, Energy
Crisis, Dual
Income
families and
single parents
We see
modernization
of manual labor.
Internet and
mainstreaming
of computerss
Editor
Gen Y (ages 18
to 30)
Gen X (ages 31
to 44)
Younger
Boomers (ages
45-54)
9/11, War on
terrorism,
Digital Media
Social networking
has become evident
in all generations
via facebook and
the social game
apps.
“The digital
attitudes and
behaviors that
Gen Y and Gen
X are
cultivating now
will follow
them as they
age and will
only be
multiplied in
the generations
that follow
them,”
Communication
changes from
letters, phone calls,
and in-person
interactions in the
Privacy was
very big for
Baby
Boomers.
Older boomers
(ages 55 to 65)
Seniors (ages
66+)
Spivak
Digital
Generation Gap
“Never
before in the
Baby Boomers
grew up before
many of the
major
technologies.
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history of
our species
have we
been faced
with a
situation
They lived in a
world of faceto-face
communication,
and physical
materials like
printed media.
Their
where each children(Gen X)
grew up with
living
computers and
generation is
the interne
focused
Baby Boomer
Generation.
Generation X just
started to see
household
technologies to
change.
Switch from rotary
phones to touchtone phones. Better
postal service.
“Boomers
grew up
amidst the
fruition of
the
industrial
revolution:
massproduced
physical
around a
and
different
synthetic
technology
platform.”
goods of
all kinds”
Also there
was a slight
shift from
manual labor
to
automation.
Adoption of
the first
generations of
computers.
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