The document discusses several new and emerging technologies including information technology, genomics, stem cell research, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. It notes that while these technologies bring great power, they also create new ethical and social challenges. It then focuses on the impacts and issues around information and communication technology (ICT) and genomics, including their roles in education, healthcare, agriculture, and more. Key concerns discussed include access divides, authenticity of information, commercialization, and more.
6. Quantum Revolution Computer Revolution Genomic Revolution Three Pillars of Science Matter Mind Life Social Impacts Transistor, Laser X Ray, Crystallography Reductionism Synergy
8. ICT Revolution Multimedia Computer Network Internet World Wide Web
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11. Internet is the technology that brings people separated by space and time together and gives them access to learning resources from around the world
12. Students not passive recipient of knowledge but active participant in the process of learning
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20. “ We have the technology today to enable virtually anyone who is not severely handicapped to learn anything anywhere any time.” Lewis J Peretlman, Schools Out , 1993 IT and Education
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22. The Digital Divide IT “Haves” and IT “Have Nots” Information “Rich” and Information “Poor”
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25. “ Nowadays we are drowning in information but starving in knowledge” Text Images Sound Software JUNK Internet resources
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37. What is Genomics? Genome of an organism is the whole hereditary information of an organism that is encoded in the DNA Genomics is the study of an organism's Genome and the use of the genetic material
Access to learning resources Student initiative New Instructional Technologies
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Linus Benedict Torvalds born December 28 , 1969 in Helsinki , Finland ) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel .
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3 , 1961 ) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society .Prior to joining Stanford he taught at the Harvard Law School , In 2002 , Lessig was awarded the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and on March 28 , 2004 he was elected to the FSF's Board of Directors [1] . Lessig is also a well-known critic of copyright term extensions. He proposed the concept of " Free Culture " [2] . He also supports free software and open spectrum [3] . He is founder and chairman of the Creative Commons and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation .
Now one in 100150 babies born in the western world is conceived with IVF. Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards: July 25, 1978 5 th July , 1996: Cloning
John Sulston Nobel Prize in 2002 for Physiology and Medicine: or their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
Leone Wexler suffered from the disease. Described by George Huntington. Autosomal Dominant inheritance. Milton Wexler established the Hereditary Disease Foundation Nancy Wexler worked on it. Duchene Muscular Dystrophy X Sex linked. MD Association of America