ABSTRACT
The world is changing. However, some things never change. In different eras, changes are different, and the speed of those changes also changes. For example, in the 1910s and 1920s, the invention of cars changed the way we move, telephones allowed us to talk to people without being in front of them, airplanes allowed us to move quickly around the world, and, later in the 1930s, refrigeration allowed us to eat food that wasn’t grown within 100 miles, like tomatoes in winter (unless you live in Mexico)! Who among us does not now use a personal or minicomputer or the web? However, similar technological changes also made it possible to kill more people in wars, a reminder that new technologies, although important and useful, can also be used for destructive purposes. Nevertheless, we will always be inventing, introducing, and using new technologies. We can’t imagine a world without electronics, and the youngest
generation can’t imagine (when it is old enough to reflect on it) a world without touchscreens and Facebook (Rosin, 2013)!
