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8. Cyberculture Cultural influences of information technology: We all take for granted that our cultural substratum influences us in many aspects of life, often without us being aware of it. Most of the time these differences have just forged stereotypes usually have some truth, but they often exaggerate the behavior of a population. Noting the difference in behavior in the use of technology between Western and Eastern, several scientific studies that have looked into the cultural aspects and try to find an explanation. According to a study recently in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the major differences in behavior are due to the Orientals have much more developed the concept of the community. To test this an experiment was conducted in the following figure showing a group of Western and Eastern, and ask for the mood of the central character Cultural change and technology Also divided into two large areas, the first metallurgical societies of prehistory, it influences the onset of the first metal handling accounts for our lands, in the period of bronze, with recreation schematic of a home, as well as in the ritual of death during that period.And above all, the role of the Hispanic world, of great importance for our region. The second of these areas, craft technology, focuses on the role of technology as an engine of change, in the development of specialized craft techniques and their relation to rural livelihoods, with a recreation of various workshops, - a blacksmith, a shoemaker shop, a potter's workshop, a woodworking and weaving - where are suggested and contextualize the various tools of these trades. The knowledge revolution and the new cultural The knowledge revolution is already a reality in today's world. It can be built into it and have access to countless opportunities that entails, or it...
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The Apple II The Apple II and the success of Apple headquarters. Cupertino, California. With the money earned by selling the Apple I, Apple could start thinking about a machine far more ambitious: the Apple II. For Wozniak, the Apple II was going to be just the computer that had wanted to build had I not had the financial constraints he had with the Apple I. He had the idea to include in the computer video memory to manage color display, just as many expansion cards included so that users could expand the capabilities of the computer for your own needs. With the design of the first prototype of the Apple II just ended, Apple Computer decided to attend the festival Personal Computing Festival, a new competition. There, the emerging microcomputer industry could show their progress and make business contacts.On the flight to Philadelphia, where he was held in 1976, the founders of Apple agreed on the plane with the founders of Processor Technology and its newly designed computer Sun, coincidentally, had a great impact in the immediate future of Apple. The vast majority of machines and micro enterprises engaged in 1976, and therefore almost all that made up the festival, were generally young fans of computer users with kits that were riding and / or welded to operate, by therefore focused mainly electronics enthusiasts. However, Processor Technology offered a much more serious and professional, and Sun was a computer while it was focused, like others, as a kit to be mounted, he was also the possibility of acquiring computer and mounted as and ready to use.It was then that Steve Jobs knew that the future was not on plates with components that users should assemble and weld themselves, but on computers like the Sun, already assembled and ready for use and enjoyment...