This document summarizes three major technological revolutions throughout history and their impacts. The printing press fundamentally changed university education and increased access to information through cheap texts. The steam engine powered the industrial revolution and the railroad, taking people out of the home for work. The personal computer has led to significant student use for both play and education while eliminating distance through the internet and enabling e-commerce. Each revolution brought both opportunities and tensions around their societal implications and changes to education.
3. The Printing Revolution The Industrial Revolution The Information Revolution
Symbol/Trigger The Printing Press The Steam Engine The Personal Computer
Education Fundamentally Changed Significant Use by Students
University Education for Play & Education
Economic Boom Railroad E-Commerce
Mental Geography Mastered Distance Eliminated Distance
Access to Informatoin Significant Increase via Significant Increase via the
cheap & widely available Internet
texts
Societal Implications Took people out of the home Labor Issues (Foxconn) /
for work / child labor Isolation
Tension Power Economic/Social Concerns ???????
The Unimaginable Secular literature, secular Telegraph, photography, ???????
theater public health
12. Outrage Done To Nature
Disgorged are now the ministers of day;
And, as they issue from the Illumined pile,
A fresh band meets them, at the crowded door
And in the courts-and where the rumbling stream,
That turns the multitude of dizzy wheels,
Glares, like a troubled spirit, in its bed
Among the rocks below. Men, maidens, youths,
Mother and little children, boys and girls,
Enter, and each the wonted task resumes
Within this temple, where is offered up
To Gain, the master idol of the realm,
Perpetual sacrifice.
Wordsworth, 1814
16. The Printing Revolution The Industrial Revolution The Information Revolution
Symbol/Trigger The Printing Press The Steam Engine The Personal Computer
Education Fundamentally Changed Significant Use by Students
University Education for Play & Education
Economic Boom Railroad E-Commerce
Mental Geography Mastered Distance Eliminated Distance
Access to Informatoin Significant Increase via Significant Increase via the
cheap & widely available Internet
texts
Societal Implications Took people out of the home Labor Issues (Foxconn) /
for work / child labor Isolation
Tension Power Economic/Social Concerns ???????
The Unimaginable Secular literature, secular Telegraph, photography, ???????
theater public health
