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Toffler's First Wave: The Agriculture Age
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Strand 1: The three waves of Toffler's Theory and the introduction of the fourth wave.
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Toffler's Second Wave: Industrial Age
Nuclear Families; worked in factories; -
Technology 1900-1910
Inventions of the Modern escalator, first radio receiver, polygraph machine, first gas motored airplane, helicopter and instant coffee maker. -
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Strand 5: Society & Culture
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Strand 2: Technology
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Strand 4:Education
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Strand 6: Political
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Strand 3: Work
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Technology 1911-1920
Inventions of the first automobile electrical ignition system, motorized movies cameras, radio tuners, superheterodyne radio circuit, pop-up toaster. -
Technology 1921-1930
Inventions of the robot, traffic signal, television, penicillin, car radio. -
Technology 1931-1940
Inventions of the jet engine, electron microscope, Polaroid photography, radio telescope, tape recorder, voice recognition machine, photocopier. -
Technology 1941-1950
Invention of the color television, first electronic digital computer, kidney dialysis machine, microwave oven, first mobile phone, atomic bomb, -
Technology 1951-1960
Invention of the video tape recorder, oral contraceptive, computer hard disk, computer modem, internal pacemaker, microchip -
Toffler's Third Wave: The Information Age
Two family income households -
Technology 1961-1970
Invention of the audio cassette, first computer video game, video disk, copmact disk, handheld calculator, computer mouse, first internet (arpanet), artificial heart, ATM. -
Technology 1971-1980
Invention of the floppy disk, VCR, word processor, ethernet, laser and ink jet printer, MRI, Cell phones. -
Technology 1981-1990
Invention of the soft bifocal contact, CD-ROM, disposable camera, windows program, Apple Macintosh, HD television. -
Fourth Wave: The Communication Age
Increased collaboration and communication via internet -
Technology 1991-2000
Invention of the world wide web, digital answering machine, DVD's, pentium processor, Java. -
Technology 2001-2010
Inventions of the iPod, birth control patch, hybrid car, youtube, myspace, facebook and other social networks.
