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the flower princess
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 Posted: 02/25/03 - 20:31 Post subject: help please-technology in the 90's
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I was assigned to do a powerpoint on technology in the 90's. Would you consider the cloning of dolly a technological advancement? Also what other things could i put in?
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Pankrat
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 20:36 Post subject:
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The world wide web would be a good one 
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the flower princess
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 20:39 Post subject:
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lol yeah that is a good one to start, and al gore invented it right =D
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Buntz
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 21:17 Post subject:
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Realpoor!!
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the flower princess
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 21:27 Post subject:
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That is under entertainment. =D
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Selenar
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 22:04 Post subject:
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For some reason, cloning doesn't sound to me like a technological advancement. Maybe a Scientific one, is there a difference? When I think technology I think of the visible evolution of something. Just opinion. You could try something like the technological advancement of the computer interface, that certainly went a long way in the 90's.
-Sel
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the flower princess
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 22:14 Post subject:
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Thanks for the tip sel, i'm not really sure about cloning but i will go ask my teacher tomorow.
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Ciladar
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 22:18 Post subject:
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Internet works like mentioned. Maybe something on the advancements on digital technology and stuff...?
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the flower princess
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 22:24 Post subject:
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Good good thx keep em coming.
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Zapper
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compusmack
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 22:29 Post subject:
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CD's became real popular and tapes disappeared.
The internet is a must-use topic.
| the flower princess wrote: | | lol yeah that is a good one to start, and al gore invented it right =D |
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the flower princess
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 22:30 Post subject:
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Haha that picture is going on the report.
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Nictathan
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 22:50 Post subject:
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a good topic would be the computer explosion of the 90's. Look at the early nineties and how far things went in just those ten years. We went from 286's being the shit in 90 (ok, 386's really) to surpassing the 1ghz mark (I think this was done before 2000, but I don't remember for sure).
As to the internet, while it was not created in the 90's, the computer explosion above is the catalyst for the internet explosion that occured
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Gethy
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 23:07 Post subject:
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Power Rangers.
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the flower princess
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 23:14 Post subject:
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Billy was gay.
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sinrakin
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 23:14 Post subject:
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Umm not absolutely sure about 80s vs 90s, but:
surround sound
GPS
digital cell phones
lithium ion batteries (e.g. small, light batteries)
cordless phones? (at least 900 mhz/2.4 ghz)
recordable CDs
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Kurel
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 23:40 Post subject:
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Cloning is a technological advancment. It opens a world of possibilites for medical uses and cures for diseases.
We also just finished mapping the human genenom.
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Yabden
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Posted: 02/25/03 - 23:44 Post subject:
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weapon technology is good.
cars, switching to more aerodynamic and more fuel efficient cars. The first hybrid cars maybe.
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Nobunaga
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Posted: 02/26/03 - 20:17 Post subject:
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There weren't many new innovations during the 1990's and most if not all of the items listed above were created earlier than the 1990's. However, You can say that this period was where the items listed above were improved upon and made cost effective enough to be used commerically. Technological advancements did occur but it was more in terms of improving upon technology or theories that previously existed. The few major innovations probably occurred with Bio and Nanotechnology sectors with Biotech advances having a more immediate impact and Nanotechnolgy potentionally having a huge impact down the line.
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Bait Masterson
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Posted: 02/26/03 - 21:38 Post subject:
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the web and net was invented a long time before the 90's, I know you AOL users think it was invented when AOL gave you access but people were browsing the net with lynx and shit before AOL even knew there was a internet.
The biggest technological advancement in the nineties was operating systems for PC's that even morons like paden could understand, thereby opening the floodgates for complete internet Idiocy like you see here.
I miss DOS
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Docter
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Posted: 02/26/03 - 21:56 Post subject:
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DvD's?
Advancement in cellphone technology?
Surgical operations via internet and robotics?
Global Positioning Sattelite?
Microchip tagging of pets and kids?
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Docter
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Posted: 02/26/03 - 21:57 Post subject:
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Oh! Oh! DNA technology used in forensics!
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Eduin
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Posted: 02/27/03 - 09:35 Post subject:
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It depends if you mean the actual invention or a significant point in the development of the thing.
For example.
Cellular Telephony was invented in the 60s.
It became a widespread business tool in the 80s.
It became a mass market consumer good in the 90s.
So does it count?
Computers are another good example, so is the internet. I'm trying to remember if the World Wide Web was implemented in the 80s or 90s - I think 90s to be honest but the internet had been around for years. Personally the World Wide Web was a bad thing as it dumbed down the 'net significantly.
Nowadays, Western Economies don't really produce technological breakthroughs that *fast*. Something is invented, maybe over the course of some years. Then it is safety tested for some more years, then there is the international arguments over standards and competing technologies, lawsuits, patent disputes, etc.. By the time a product comes to market it can easily be 10 or 20 years into the development cycle. The Space Shuttle first flew in the 80s but it was designed in the 60s and built throughout the 70s.
Of the top of my head, the only truly 90s technology product I can think of is DVDs but you can argue that this was just an offshoot of CDs which date back to the 70s.
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Eduin
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Jinu
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Posted: 02/27/03 - 10:30 Post subject:
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all you fools saying the web "dumbed down" the internet are trying to play sword fight with your virtual penix. no, actually, it didn't. the www pushed internet technology to new boundaries. It forced the development of wide spread high speed access and exponentially expanded upon technologies that were crawling for years.
i mean, from the 60s to the late 80s, everything was still text based.
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Luturb
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Posted: 02/27/03 - 11:10 Post subject:
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Cloning is absolutely a technological advance. The human Genome Project is another good one. Like a lot of other people said, a lot of stuff like cell phones, personal computers, video games, the internet etc. were around before 1990, but the 90s were when they went from being something that rich people and hard-core geeks owned to something that is in every home. DVDs are a good one, hell I didn't even get my first CD player until 1993, but it wasn't exactly the first one built. Broadband internet wasn't around before the 90s (in it's current form anyway).
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Akronn
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Posted: 02/27/03 - 11:15 Post subject:
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In highschool, my bio techer worked on the human genome project for two years before teaching. Now I had him in '92/93... so that project was well underway before the 90s.
In all honesty, I can't think of too many really important breakthroughs in the 90s, or at least none that have made a large impact *yet*. Most of the rewards we're reaping now are due largely in part to work done 15+ years ago.
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Luturb
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Posted: 02/27/03 - 11:31 Post subject:
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The human Genome project was begun in 1990 and is expected to be completed this year. Thx info.
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Akronn
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Posted: 02/27/03 - 11:33 Post subject:
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Then he came straight from the project, it's still two years.
*shrug* I would've thought he'd taken a break or try something else in the field before teaching.
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Jinu
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Posted: 02/27/03 - 11:37 Post subject:
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| Luturb wrote: | | The human Genome project was begun in 1990 and is expected to be completed this year. Thx info. |
that would be the US human genome project. the Genome project was started a very long time ago by several international bodies
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Nahualli
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Posted: 02/27/03 - 11:45 Post subject:
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I think technology and science are for the most part inseperable.
The thing that has allowed modern medicine and science to achieve has been technological advances.. creating machines and computers to see further, think faster, probe deeper and zoom in closer ... You don't really think that splitting the atom was ONLY a scientific advance, do you?
-Nah-
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