Module No.

and Title : Module 1: Media Environments

Lesson No. and Title : Lesson 1: Who are the Millennials
Lesson 2: Adapting to New Technology

Lesson 3: Overview of the New Technological

Development

Learning Outcomes:
In this chapter you will learn about:
 Understand who the millennials are and who they are perceived
 Distinguish the difference between millennials from other generations
 Know how the millennials control social media
 Be aware of the effects of the internet to us humans
 Know how technology affecting us humans and the world
 Be informed on how technology has changed over time

Time Frame: 3 Hours

Introduction:
Hello my dear students! Welcome to this chapter which covers millennials
and new technologies. Millennials are people born in the years between 1981 and
1996. They are the generation wherein the Internet bloomed. Though everyone,
whatever generation you are from uses the Internet nowadays, millennials are the one
most attached to it. They are the generation that witnessed the progress of technology
(the internet).

Since the usage of Internet by millennials continuously increases, this affects

them drastically. It's not just millennials but as well as other people who use it in
general. It is believed that it is making us "stupid" due to our dependency on it. It is
not only making us "stupid" but lazy as well.

Although there are loads of opinion on our usage of technology, it has been a
big help to us. Technology continues to progress each and every day and its help to
us carries on. Keep Fighting! And Enjoy Learning!

Activity: (ANSWER THIS)

Make a list of your top 5 mobile/pc application you mostly used in daily life.

Mobile/PC Application Hour Time / Run Time Use or purpose in your life
Example: Facebook Example: 5 hours a day Example: Socialization
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Analysis: (ANSWER THIS)

From the top 5 mobile/pc application you mention in the Activity what method or activities
you can mention as a counter pack for the old era.

Mobile/PC Application Used Counter Part Activities from the Old Era
Example: Facebook Example: Meeting with friends
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Abstraction:

Millennials and the Rise of the Information Society

I. Who are the millennials?

A. What are the age bracket of the generation?

It is a common misconception that the millennials are simply the latter part of
the generation. Most people believe that even if you are born in the latter years of the
90's (up until year 2000), you're technically a millennial. Pew Research announced as
of 2018 that you can only use the label millennial to those who were born between
the years 1981 and 1996. In today's time —2019 —they are the ones who age 23 to
37.

B. The Millennial Personality: Other generations on Millennials

Personalities — every generation has them. These young adults, which are the
millennials, making their way into a new stage in life which is adulthood at a start of
a new millennium have begun to change. They shape and construct their confidence,
self-expressiveness, liberation, and their minds that are very much open to change.
Compared to other adults or the other generations, their ethical perspective and racial
perspective are more diverse. They have become less religious or spiritual. Study
says that they are less likely to serve in the military. However, they are towards the
path of becoming the most education generation in American History.
 On the road to become the most educated generation, 39.6% were enrolled in
university or college as of, 2008, according to research. Manners wise, millennials
are on good terms with their parents. Despite the media labelling this generation as
politically disengaged, millennials were one of previous American President Barack
Obama's supporters in 2008 with atwo-to-one ratio.

Millennials are known for being, as the older generation says, self-centered.
According to Jos Ortega, the chairman and CEO of Havas Media Ortega Wherein
anthropologists study millennials, the foundation of millennial decision making is "I
want to do things on my own terms". Millennials have a perspective in life where in
whatever decision theymake, it must be their very own. Despite failure, based on the
decision it's alright, it's my decision, they will abundantly accept the consequences
and go on with their lives. After all, it was their decision and they will learn from it.

Millennials developed their minds all through the electronics field and
progressively constructing their way to make social life in social networked world.
This generation has established the most attention when it comes to trades and
merchandises of many various products and deals due to their countless needs. At
this kind of situation, millennials are inclined to tolerate huge differences. Being
raised in an era of people believing the quote "follow your dreams" are making the
mind of these people positive and are more likely to be confident regarding to their
works and progresses in life. On the other hand, the confidence of the millennial's
generation has exponentially fading away due to narcissism and issues with oneself.
But based on the research, they are proven to be more optimistic rather than the other
late generations regardless that they are the first generation (ever since the Silent
Generation) to be able to be more effective and fortunate than their mothers and
fathers.

Many millennials experienced educational institution with a certain field, only

to discover that they will soon be employed with an unrelated field or worse,
unemployed. They are lucky if they could finish postsecondary education and
afterwards, employed with the particular field they have taken in college. Although
the said generation has been considered and categorized as lazy, study has already
proven that people in this era are encouraged to work on things especially if it
interests them. They comprehend value to the little things that show significance to
them as an individual. Millennials have to see it as an important matter before they
put effort and value to it.

C. The difference of Millennials from other generation

1. Millennials are more educated

Thanks to the women suffrage movement, the females gained their rights
which included education. The number of women who have finished their education
increased. During the Silent Generation (covers people who were born between the
year 1928 and 1945), only 9 finished or graduated college; four years at least. If we
were to compare the silent generation and generation x (millennials), the women who
completed their education increased by 36% at the same age.

For the male population, just like the female, have increased the rates of
young men who graduated university or college. Three in ten men in the millennial
generation, which is 29%, have completed their education with the least attainment of
a bachelor's degree.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/16/how-millennials-compare-with-their-
grandparents/

Table 1.0 Educational Attainment Chart of the Silent Generation to Millennials

2. The number of the female population who has

completed education increased.

The female population has made bigger improvement over time when it
comes to education. Amongst the millennial generation from ages twenty-one (21) to
thirty-six (36), women who at least finished a bachelor's degree are 7% more than
men. During the silent generation, with the same age bracket, women were six point
behind men who have finished college education with four years the least attainment.
As for Gen Xers, they were the first generation whose women outnumbered men
when it comes to college educational attainment with 3% advantage among the
millennial women.

3. The number of working women increased.

In the year 1965, the female population of the silent generation were young
with majority of 58% women who were not in the labor force. With the Generation X
or the millennials, 71% of the female are employed and 26% are not in the labor
force.

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grandparents/

Table 2.0 Chart for labor workers of different generations

4. Millennials are three times less likely to get married.

In the year 1965, an average woman is most likely to get married at twenty-
one (21) and a man at twenty-three (23). With the millennials, as of the year 2017,
the age slides to twenty-seven (27) for the females and twenty-nine '(29) for the
males. When asked why they haven't gotten married yet, their reasons vary from not
being financially prepared (29%), they have not found their special someone with the
qualities of their standards (26%), and 26% said that they are not ready to settle down
at such a young age.

5. Millennials are more racial and ethnically diverse.

As of the year 2017, the non-Hispanic whites are 56% of the American
population compared to the Silent Generation which has 86% of non-Hispanic
whites. The Asian race has also increased; however, the black remains almost the
same.

6. Millennial men are less likely to become a veteran.

Despite the age where millennials are born in the conflict between Iraq and
Afghanistan wherein the United States military are engaged, they are less likely to
serve in the military than the older generation. Only 4% of the millennials are serving
the military compared to the 47% of the men of the silent generation who came in the
age of the Korean War and its aftermath.
7. Most of the millennials in today's time live in the
metropolitan area.

Nine (9) out of ten (10) millennials are residing in the metro areas with a
percentage of 88%. Compared to the older generation, the silent generation only had
two-thirds which is 67%, lived in the metropolitan area. With a similar rate, 68% of
the baby boomers were staying in

The metropolitan area whilst the Gen Xers have a closer percentage compared
to the millennials with 84%.

D. The Image of Millennials

It is not a secret that the older generations do not hide their distaste with the
millennial generation. They have called the millennials killers of the industry,
judging them with their outlooks when it comes to marriage, career path, and simply
their perspective in life.

Although people often see just the other side of spectrum, millennials have
created movements that changed a lot. An example would be the Arab Spring and
Occupy Wall Street.

Good things or bad things, however you want to see the generation of the
millennials, they are still the future leaders of the country, in business, and society in
general.

II. Adapting to New Technology

A. What is the New Technology?

It is no secret that technology has ghastly evolved over the past few years.
From the means of communication to transportation, it's unbelievable on how far
we've come.

Any set of progress in techniques which offers significant help over the
created technology for a given process is a new technology. Whether it is a new
invention or an innovation of a previous work, as long as it new application of a
scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in the industry, it is new
technology.

B. Millennials on Social Media

Millennials for the last ten years have gained a massive increase of popularity
when it comes to social networking online with common users collectively counting
in millions. Both males and females have an equal amount of using the social
network and no difference has occurred in regards to nationality and race. Millennials
today are the biggest and leading generation in the world and it developed its way to
the top with innovation and technology by their side helping them in terms of media
stands and putting them in place where they get hooked with regard to social media
habits.

Cell phones, laptops; and televisions are the examples of technology that they
most often get, addicted with. New and advanced technology are in disguised as a
fashion trend where millennials are digging their way to have it simply because it is
practiced and made to be addictive. They are so good with their multi-tasking
capabilities that they can work on school assignment on their computer, and do
research at their tablet all while taking notes; and later that day, they will sit in front
of the television to watch a movie and at the same time, chatting or texting a friend
on Facebook from their phones or laptops. Researches have certain reports that
millennials are more skilled and capable of doing multitasking compared with the older
generations

The chart given above was conducted by Harris Poll in the United States from
June 27 - July 1, 2014. The organization that took the survey has taken 2083 adults
whose ages range from 18 and older and among them were 507 millennials, with ages
from 18-34. This only shows that social media were majorly used by millennials
(60% of the entire usage of social media).

Table 3.0 Social media activities at different platforms by different age groups

The chart given above was conducted by Harris Poll in the United States from
June 27 - July 1, 2014. The organization that took the survey has taken 2083 adults
whose ages range from 18 and older and among them were 507 millennials, with ages
from 18-34. This only shows that social media were majorly used by millennials
(60% of the entire usage of social media).
 Table 4.0 Facebook dominates as a social media platform
for news and information

Facebook is a social networking website where users are free to post their
current status, comment on posts, share photos, and post links about news or an
attention-grabbing content outside the Facebook itself. As of today, Facebook has
become the most influential platform for social media and also for business matters.
It gained with nearly 2 million active users monthly and became the largest platform
for social media with the most diverse audience.

Although the adults under the age of 35 are already influenced by the
enormous spread of Facebook, still Millennials who are younger are more likely to
use social media networks for news and broadcast better than the older generations.

C. Social Media on Millennials

Social media has become more developed and approved by most of the
people in regards to trends and style. It is the most used way as of today for
interacting and communicating globally. Researchers have explained that the social
media have so much to benefit people from. Therefore, it is examined as one of the
best examined learning devices that mend to the people's talking and communicating
skills and knowledge. According to Kavitha & Bhuvaneswari, it is found to act as a
main social influence when it comes to social media that affects the personal life of
the users.

The conflict of Millennials to social media with their cell phones discharges a
chemical that is called "dopamine" that when an individual gets a notification; it will
make him/her feel good and better. They express their emotions through social media
because they are expecting a response from others and that is what makes them feel
good. Dopamine is the exact same chemical that makes people feel good when they
smoke and drink so in other words it is indeed, extremely addictive. An entire
generation that has access to an addictive chemical called dopamine through social
media, and technologies like cell phones and computers as they are like going
through the pressure of teenagers. Some millennials discover by accident the
shocking effects of dopamine to help them manage the tensions and anxieties of
puberty but unfortunately that becomes a bad example of growing up as an adult.
Scientist who conducted certain experiments on many different societies made them
noticed that people who spend extra time on their screens doing Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, etc. experience higher rates of depression less than to those people who
spend less time on social media. In fact, there is nothing wrong with social media and
cell phones but it is the imbalance of using it and spending a lot more time than being
productive for the day. The example of this imbalance usage of social media is when
people are sitting in a meeting with important people where you are supposed to be
listening to and speaking with then you the started using cell phones instead of doing
urgent things, and the fact that people cannot put it away is because they are addicted
to it. Another example is when a person wakes up and starts to check his/her phone
firstly in the morning before saying good morning to his/her love ones only shows
that people who experienced this show signs of addiction and like all addiction,
sooner or later will destroy relationships, cost time and money and will make a life
miserable.

In the research conducted by Pew Research Center, almost 90 percent of the

users of social media tend to be educated and younger, and use at least two forms of
social media that are defined as an ever evolving and changing web-based platform.

Here are the fast facts about social media:

1. Web 2.0 and interactive
2. It has features of user-generated profiles.
3. Users can generate the content.
4. The 69 percent users of social media were Americans based on the 2018 survey.
5. Two Asian countries lead in the list of social media; they are India and China.
6. Online time spent of an individual on social media is over one-fifth.

The Many Forms of Social Media

It has many forms of diversity of technology enabled activities that includes

blogging, social gaming, photo and video sharing, business and social networks,
virtual worlds, reviews and many more. Government, private sector, politicians, and
international and local celebrities make use of social media to engage with
constituents, customers, voters, and avid fans.
 For individuals, the use of social media is for family, friends and extended
family that use various applications to look and search for opportunities on their
career, search people world-wide with their interest, likes, and share thoughts,
feelings, insight, and emotions, and engage in the activities of virtual social network.

For businesses, the role of social media is crucial tool that used some
companies as a platform to find and engage with customers, consumer trends,
offering good customer service or support and even drive sales through advertising,
marketing and promoting their products.

The significant role of social media is helping the business to facilitate the
communication with customers, ability to collect information from the customer to
focus on the marketing efforts and research, enabling the merging of social
interactions on e-commerce sites, helps in promotion products and services according
to targeted in distribution, exclusive sales and coupons to would-be customers, and
timely that helps to build customer relationships through loyalty programs linked to
social media.

Real World Example

There are positive and negative sides of social media that may use in any
point of platform features, equating its overuse that leads to an addiction and
contributes to absentmindedness, stress, and jealousy. In the researchof the National
Center Biotechnology, social media information links has use to depression and may
conduit for misleading information and falsehoods.

The figures for the most popular social media websites as of January 2019 are
as follows:

1.As of January 2019, 2.27 billion users of Facebook

2.1.9 billion users of YouTube
3.1.5 billion users of WhatsApp
4.1.3 billion users of Facebook Messenger
5.1.08 billion users of WeChat
6.1 billion users of Instagram
7. 803 million users of QQ
8. 531 million users of QZone
9. 500 million users of Douyin/TikTok
10. 446 million users of Sino Weibo

D. Millennials' dependency on the internet

Almost everyone in today's time uses technology. Whether it is for the means
of communication to usage of machines to building fire, which is technology. With
the century we are currently living in with technology surrounding us, technology has
helped us in our daily lives. It is difficult not to use technology. But the biggest group
of people who uses social media or the internet in general are the millennials. There
are a lot of ways that we can say that millennials are dependent—or even obsessed as
the media perceive it to be—on technology.

1. Information gathering

If you were to ask someone if he/she would prefer to go to the library or the
internet, it would probably be the latter. Millennials rely on the internet for gathering
any information. When surveyed, a number of 88% of millennials receive or get news
from Facebook, a big and famous social media platform. Another report says that
they get their daily news from Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit or Tumblr, which are all
social media sites. About 13% use Twitter, 10% use Pinterest, 8% use Reddit while
7% use Tumblr.

With the number of accessible information in the internet such as google and
Wikipedia, they could access all the information they want.

2. Navigation and transportation

To get around the area or to go to a specific place, the old way is to grab
yourself a map and that will help you navigate. But with today's advance technology,
all you need is GPS or even a smartphone. There are a lot of applications that can
help you navigate such as Google Maps and Waze. They help you not only to get
around the area but even give you multiple directions for shortcuts and traffic updates
so that you'll know what the best route to use is.

Transportation has been made easier when it comes to commuting. There are
applications that manage bus transports so that you'll know their routes and what time
they would arrive. You can even get yourself a cab over your smartphones with the
use of Uber or Grab.

3. Communication

The millennials or generations are more globally diverse compared to the

previous generations. They have friends and families all over the world. Nowadays,
only few use landlines due to the fact that phones have drastically evolved to
smartphones. Messaging apps such as Messenger and Skype are already used. They
are free; all you need is internet connection.

4. Education
 It is amazing how technology has evolved. Today, you can already learn and
study via your computer. There are already online schools where in they will give
you books and activities so that you won't need to leave your home. In the
Philippines, we have AMA and South Ville, and that is just two out of the many.

E. Google is making us stupid?

An article by Nicholas Carr has blown up the internet because he is saying

that the internet, not just Google, is making us stupid. He mentioned that even his
friend, who used to read long articles, can't do it anymore. That even a three to four
paragraph article is difficult to read already and that he resolves to skim.

The company Google stated that their mission is "to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible and useful". It is hard for people not to
use Google these days. We use Google for everything from education to online
shopping to tutorials on how to make a certain meal. Google wanted to be the
"perfect search engine" which means that it (Google search engine) will understand
what you want and will give you exactly what you require. They wanted it to be an
artificial intelligence wherein they could solve never before solved problems.

According to Carr, we are all good if our brains were replaced or

supplemented by artificial intelligence. By that, it suggests that intelligence is simply
a series of steps to be measured and optimized. It can imply that the human brain is
just an old and outdated computer that will need an upgrade.

With every click we make in everyday that we make in everyday that we surf
the web, Google and other companies collect information and feed us advertisements.
It's an economic ploy to drive us to distraction and they gain money.

It can be those ironic things wherein you benefit and yet you don't. With the
help of technology, every day's duties have become easier. With your smartphones,
you may be able to recall your list of things to do and where you need to go. It has
become easier to communicate with someone in a different place whether that
person's five (5) miles to thousands of miles away. With just a few clicks, you can
already find the information you need instead of going around the library for hours.
It's less time consuming and yet the abuse of people who use it disrupts it all.

The internet has made us lazy, like mentioned above, the incapability of
reading lengthy books or articles from being able to. There are times wherein people
do not want to think for themselves and just rely on search engines such as Google.
Research says that the internet has made us impatient as well.

As nature goes, as a new generation enters, they get more and more impatient.
Microsoft has recently discovered that people are suffering from a decline or decrease
 of attention span. Now, we have an average of eight (8) seconds of attention span. A
study by Jampp has found out that our attention span declines by 88% every year.

Just like everything else, if there's a good side there will be a bad side.
Though technology has been praised and criticized at the same time, we can still all
say that we are thankful that it continues to evolve.

The founders of Google company are Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 1996
they were students at Stanford University, California. In 2014, the company held an
Intellectual Property Office and by 2015 the company restructured the interests as
alphabet and became the leading subsidiary of Google that operates as a partnership
to Internet interests.

Google

The two founders made the Google as a search engine that can work to find a
variety of information like websites, maps, pictures, videos and many more. Google
also called "web crawler" has a computer program that examines and searches using
"keyword" content at the billions of websites available on the World Wide Web.

Google has an enormous majority of income from advertising that branched

out into number of areas such as cloud computing, software and hardware.

Google company creates the first Google Phone called Pixel as a mobile
hardware market and makes an cloud unit called Google Cloud that contains things
like G-Suite, the company's productivity applications like Gmail and Google Drive.

Google's key features and benefits

1. Has a search box for your query.

2. Instantly provides answers.
3. Search instantly different websites, news, maps, videos, images and much
more.
4. Provides suggestions, alternative search terms and misspelled word or
phrase.

Google creates web browser called Google Chrome and Google Analytics.
Google Chrome is designed to be fast and simply to download things for free on the
intemet while Google Analytics is designed to provide enormous amount of
information on how a website is working and the service is for free. In addition, the
Google has a huge commercial side, creating and placing the advertising you often
see on websites.

Google's safety features:

1. SafeSearch must enable to filter out mature content.
2. Browsing the web must be in private.
3. Approved games and applications must be limited in accessing on the user's
tablet.

Google Chrome's key benefits and features:

1. Pages are easy and fast to open and load.

2. Capable of searching the web inside the address bar.
3. Capable of adding favorite websites to the Favorite module and/or Folder
4. Personalization of Browser through iGoogle that can include local news,
weather, sport, anything else that interest the users
5. Connecting to Gmail email account from within the browser

Google+ — or Google Plus

Google+ was tested in June 2011 to a small number of users to initially add
contacts of their family and friends. In April 2012, Google overhauled and opened
the service to everyone and became more popular in some of its tools and features
such as the Picasa photo storing and sharing platform that is similar to other popular
social networks and micro-bogging platforms.

Google+'s key features and benefits

1. Go to plus.google.com
2. Must have a Google account
3. Main Page has "stream" for updates, conversations and shared content.
4. Add contact and assigning to one or more "circles" for categorizing and
organizing people.
5. Need to Sign up then Google set up the 'Friends' and 'Acquaintances' then
you can add on your own.
6. Share messages or links within designated circles.
7. Circles are private.
8. Notification appears when someone adds you, commented on and reacted to
the content.
9. Comments to the content shared by other user and can add "+1" as liking the
comment
10. Share the original poster and content.
11. In the video chat, the user allows to use the "Hangout" application.
 12. Organize and upload photos using Google Photos previously known as
Picasa
13. Google + application available for smartphones
14. Personalized Google Plus address

Send and Receive Money from Friends and Family Using Gmail

Google Wallet Balance allows to send and receive money to any email
address provider. Here are the guides on how you use this feature from a web
browser.

How to make a payment with Gmail

1. Go to Gmail.
2. Open the account and click "Compose" then add the email address of the
receiver.
3. Add a subject and message text then click the pound sterling symbol
4. Send money via Google Wallet Click on Add debit card.

5. Add the credit or debit card details, enter the amount you want to send.
Then, click Review and Attach.
6. Have one more spot check. When you're happy, click on Send .

How to receive a payment on Gmail

1. Add a debit card to receive the money.

2. Open the Gmail account then open the message with the attached money and
click Claim money.

How to request money from someone using Gmail

1. To request money, follow the same steps to making a payment except click
on Request. Click Review then attach. When you are happy, click Send.
2. If you'd like more help with this service please go to Google's help center.

III. Overview of New Technological Development

A. How technology changed the world

1. Technology changed the education system.

Education and learning approaches were changed by the technology the first
time IBM was introduced as the first personal computer back in 1981. People knew
from the start that technologies will grow vastly because of how technology
progresses, and also because of people's dissatisfaction in the advancement of
technology. Some of the best schools were built but unfortunately, these institutes
were far-flung from the homes of some and that was not motivating in some ways.

So because of that, technology once again found an answer and that is to

provide online schools. Anyone nowadays can have a degree online just by operating
his/ her computers with internet.

2. Technology changed the methods of communicating.

Technology today has created many various types of application in terms of

doing communication online. Before technology era began in the 8th century, letters
and written emails were the first kind of communication. In 1897, radios for
communicating were invented and in 1916 were the first and longest time-consumed
radio broadcast. Today, radios are no longer used by the majority of people due to the
popularity of mobile phones, computers, and even a video conferencing tools. The
advantage of doing the communication online is that it is constant and fast, and also
easy and known as the quickest way of communication.

In the past, a
handwritten letter
takes up to a span of
10 days to get hold of
the information written
inside the letter. Social
media nowadays are
the most ranked tool
for communicating
and
interacting because of
itsmany benefits.

3. Technology changed people's

 There are both positive and negative effects of technology in the health of the
people. These days, health care services and technologies used in checkups are more
developed than the previous generations. But the reason due to the inventions of
these are also because of the thought that people are abusing the use of technology in
their daily lives.

B. What are the new technological development?

1. Artificial Intelligence
2.
Artificial
Intelligence or known
as AI is the replication
of machine's intellect
and a human
intelligence. Some part
or applications of an
AI includes its
expertise on systems,
speech recognition,
and its very own
machine
vision.Artificial
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has two categorizations
either weak or strong. An AI which is categorized as weak is called the narrow AI
and its system is intended and qualified when it comes to an actual task. An example
of this is the Apple's voice Siri. A strong Al on the other hand, is called as the
artificial general intelligence. It is capable of reacting upon human cognitive abilities
and it is strong enough to discover a solution without the intervention of humans.

3. 3D Printing

3D printing is
correspondingly kwon as
additive manufacturing
because printing in 3D
does not let it eliminate
materials, in fact adds
more of it a sheet after.
But for you to print a 3D
object, it has have a 3D
model of a certain to be
able for the 3D printer to
project the exact results
 Augmented Reality 4. Google Glass
or also known as AR has
made its way to be included
in the lives of people in
terms of virtual experience
and even education itself.
Users can download
applications to it and can
now view feeds on social
media, text messages, and
maps that can navigate the

5. Oculus Rift

Games nowadays
have stepped up with Virtual
Reality with the help of the
Oculus Rift. This 3D headset
will make the users feel the
impression of being inside
the own video game itself. In
the virtual world of the Rift,
with ultra - low latency, you
could turn your head around
to sight the inside world of
the game in a high

C. How much has technology

changed over the time?

It is clear as day how technology has evolved. From building fire for light to light
bulbs to telegrams to online communications platforms, technology has changed a lot
over the time.

1. Communications

During the old days, you had to send a letter or a telegram to communicate with
someone miles away from you. This may take days and days before it arrives at your
doorstep. For checking, you had to trace where the letter had been sent and if the
opposite or correct person received it. Errors such as the letters getting in the hands
of the incorrect receiver or messages getting lost is not rare as well. But with today's
technology, it has been made easier. To communicate with someone, all you need is a
cell phone or a computer to send them a message.
 There are a lot of platforms and options to communicate with someone far away
these days. You can always go for your "classic" way of calling via telephone or you
can use your cellular phones to give them a call or send a message via SMS. Now,
you can use social media for means of communication. There is a large variety of
options you can choose from, ranging from Facebook to Twitter to Skype to Viber.
They have become a part of our everyday lives and in all honesty, they might not be
gone in a very long time. Whether that person is beside you, blocks away, or even
miles and oceans away, your message will be delivered at the same rate and speed (of
course, still depending on your internet connection). It is amazing how you can send
a voice message or a text message that can be delivered in nanoseconds.

2. Bills Payment and Money Transfers

The bank is a revolutionary advancement. Who knew we would go from trading

cows and shells to having paper money and coins. Money storage and control has
been made easier because of this. However, with the continuous progress and
advancement of technology, you don't even have to go to the bank to pay your bills or
send and receive money. With a simple tap from your fingertips, you can already do
it on your smart phones.

Countless banks are already making online transactions possible due to its hassle-
free benefit. There are heaps of companies, such as Paypal and Paymaya, created
platforms wherein people can send and receive money from anybody from any part
of the world with the usage of the internet.

You can even use your smart phones for payment in physical stores so that you
won't have to carry cash anymore.

3. Entertainment

Smartphones have taken over the world. There are about two (2) million
smartphones being sold every day. Connected to smartphones is social media which
has vastly grew over the past few years. It has helped a lot of people from across the
globe not just for entertainment purposes but gave them accessible information as
well. There are nearly 3.2 billion people who uses the internet actively. That is
practically half of the earth's population.

It is almost impossible for someone not to be on the internet. Even four-year olds
nowadays have access to internet and can already navigate and use computers,
phones, or tablets. There are even people getting obsessed over social media
platforms such as Facebook and Instragram.

There are countless consoles for you to play your games and countless platforms
for you to watch your favorite movies. Consoles such as PS4 and Xbox are the most
famous platforms for gaming as well as personal computers. It has become so famous
that it is already considered a sport called e-sports, a form of competition using video
games.

You can watch your favorite movies or series on your television. But since
smartphones continues to develop, you can already watch movies or video on it,
YouTube and Netflix being one of the biggest and most popular platforms. Back in
the days, people watch videos on the television and they may use tapes. In 1999, 92%
use tapes as home entertainment. In 2006, 94% of the US population use DVD for
home entertainment. Now you can store your movies in external hard drives. You can
watch videos straight from your smart televisions and smartphones.

Table 5.0 Chart for famous video viewing platform in the past years

From tapes and CDs, you can now listen to music using music players and even
your smartphone.

Table 6.0 Chart for music listening medium in the past years

D. New technologies that could change the world

It is crazy, even almost unbelievable, how much technology changed the world.
Now, there's cure for different illness unlike before. There are more innovative
drainages, machines, and transportation these days.

1. Agricultural Drones
 With the help of technology, farmers begin to use drones with cameras attached to
them to improve how they treat their crops. The drone allows the farmers to have a
different perspective compared to the previous satellite used. They only not help
reveal irrigation treatment issues and soil variation but distressed plants as well. This
costs less compared to methods such as crop imaging. The agricultural drone has
been made possible with the usage of GPS, digital radios, and small MEMS sensors.

2. Ultra private Smartphones

The concern over privacy grows and grows as countless hackers make their way
into other people's devices. However, a Maryland based company, Silent Circles,
now encrypts their client's text messages, voice mails, and even files that they have
attached to the messages or they have sent. Encryption protects metadata by
preventing hackers or crackers from accessing the device. The company, Silent
Circle, even has plans to create a smartphone called Blackphone. It will use
encryption that is currently being used by the company.

3. Brain Mapping

Neuroscientists have worked decades of decades just to understand how the brain
works. Human Brain Project, an international team of researchers, has created a
three dimensional atlas of the brain. With its map revolution fifty times better than
the previous efforts, the creators digitally stitched thousands of brain cross-sections.

4. Genome Editing

Researches in China has made a big technological advancement by creating a pair

of monkeys with the usage of genetic mutations. They used CRISPR, a new method
of DNA engineers. This will allow you to modify fertilize eggs. CRISPR has the
potential to help researchers and doctors to study ailments such as autism and
Alzheimer's by identifying genetic mutations.

5. Microscale 3-D Printing

Before you can only print on different types of paper, now you can print in 3D.
Today, plastic is the only way to use 3D Printing. However, researchers from
Harvard University led by Jennifer Lewis, developed a new ink based 3D printer. As
time comes and technology will continue to develop, new inks will enable to create
artificial organs.
Application: (ANSWER THIS)

I. TRUE or FALSE
Write “TRUE” if the statement is correct, if the statement is incorrect underline
(highlight) the wrong phrase or word and write correct answer.
________ 1. Millennials or Generation Y are born in the years 1981-1996.
_
________ 2. When it comes to being advanced in living their lives, Generation
_ X leads based on the research.
________ 3. Millennial people are the most educated generation.
_
________ 4. Cell phones, laptops, or any kinds of notification discharge a
_ chemical into the user’s brain and called as “dopamine”.
________ 5. According to Jamp, google is making us stupid.
_

II. WORD SCRAMBLE

(OPDMNEIA)
A type of chemical that cell phones discharges.

(LLIEMNAISL)
A generation more globally diverse compared to other generations.

(RACR)
He mentioned that google is making us stupid.

(ECFOOKBA)
A social media platform that allows its user to post their current status,
comment on posts, and share posts.

(RCIRSP)
A new method that DNA engineers use.

III. FILL IN THE BLANK

__________________ 1. 3D headset will make the users feel the impression of
being inside the own video game itself
__________________ 2. Farmer used to improve how they treat their crops
__________________ 3. Neuroscientists have worked decades of decades just
to understand how the brain works
__________________ 4. Brand of smart glasses—an optical head-mounted
 display designed in the shape of a pair of glasses
__________________ 5. A search engine that can work to find a variety of
information like websites, maps, pictures, videos and
many more
__________________ 6. As of January 2019, how many users Facebook had?
__________________ 7. Example of a movements that had been created by the
millennials
__________________ 8. The construction of a three-dimensional object from a
CAD model or a digital 3D model
__________________ 9. Application used to make a payment with Gmail
__________________ 10. The replication of machine's intellect and a human
intelligence

IV. ESSAY (Not more than 5 sentences)

1. Does Google making us stupid? Why?

2. How much has technology changed over the time? Give a short discussion

References:

Living In The Information Technology Era

Teodero F. Revano Jr.
MINDSHAPERS CO., INC.

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