Management Information System Test Notes
TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION, AND SOCIETY
The Plan * 3 great moments in human history (3 eras) * Technology: progression and shock * A Lesson from History: The Automobile (classic vs. expressive technology) * The current example: IT
Three Great Moments in Human History (1) First Wave – Agrarian Revolution a. Wealth is in the land (exhaustible / exclusive) (2) Second Wave – Industrial Revolution (mass production and assembly line) b. Wealth is in the labor, land, and capital (diminished, exclusive) c. Centralization and standardization (massification) i. Death of the artisan (3) Third Wave – Information Revolution d. Wealth is the knowledge (non-exhaustible, non-exclusive) e. Demassification f. What you have isn’t nearly as important as what you know ii. Only 2.5% of jobs are considered agriculture iii. 70% of all US jobs make no tangible product
TECHNOLOGY: PROGRESSION AND SHOCK
Future Shock: Alvin Toffler (1970) * Inability of people to adapt to the technology being thrown at them * 0 – 1750 AD Technology knowledge doubles * 1750 – 1890 AD Technology knowledge doubles * 1900 – 1950 AD Technology knowledge doubles * In the last 50 years, there has been more technological progression than the last 10,000 years * Turn of the century: Toffler’s Future Shock generation * At the beginning: horse and buggy, foot, bicycle * At the end: cars, trains, airplanes, mass transit, jets, space flight, shuttles, space stations * Dates to Remember: * July 20, 1969 first man on the moon * April 12, 1981 first space shuttle sent up * January 28, 1986 challenger explosion * February 1, 2003 second challenger
A Lesson from History: The Automobile * Written in 1923, about the automobile: * Americans measure distance in minutes, not miles * Isolated wasteland becomes choice property
The Plan * 3 great moments in human history (3 eras) * Technology: progression and shock * A Lesson from History: The Automobile (classic vs. expressive technology) * The current example: IT
Three Great Moments in Human History (1) First Wave – Agrarian Revolution a. Wealth is in the land (exhaustible / exclusive) (2) Second Wave – Industrial Revolution (mass production and assembly line) b. Wealth is in the labor, land, and capital (diminished, exclusive) c. Centralization and standardization (massification) i. Death of the artisan (3) Third Wave – Information Revolution d. Wealth is the knowledge (non-exhaustible, non-exclusive) e. Demassification f. What you have isn’t nearly as important as what you know ii. Only 2.5% of jobs are considered agriculture iii. 70% of all US jobs make no tangible product
TECHNOLOGY: PROGRESSION AND SHOCK
Future Shock: Alvin Toffler (1970) * Inability of people to adapt to the technology being thrown at them * 0 – 1750 AD Technology knowledge doubles * 1750 – 1890 AD Technology knowledge doubles * 1900 – 1950 AD Technology knowledge doubles * In the last 50 years, there has been more technological progression than the last 10,000 years * Turn of the century: Toffler’s Future Shock generation * At the beginning: horse and buggy, foot, bicycle * At the end: cars, trains, airplanes, mass transit, jets, space flight, shuttles, space stations * Dates to Remember: * July 20, 1969 first man on the moon * April 12, 1981 first space shuttle sent up * January 28, 1986 challenger explosion * February 1, 2003 second challenger
A Lesson from History: The Automobile * Written in 1923, about the automobile: * Americans measure distance in minutes, not miles * Isolated wasteland becomes choice property