The Digital Revolution

websites that help you find information on the internet

• search engines

• rotary phones

• typewriters

Why are digital signals preferred over analog signals in modern communication?

• 
  They require no devices to send or receive.

• They look and sound more natural.

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  They are harder to interrupt and more reliable.

Which Digital Revolution technology uses a search engine?

• automobiles

• 
  the internet

• washing machine

Which were important inventions that came from the Digital Revolution? Select all that apply!

• personal computers;

• mobile phones

• the internet

• video games

Match the following

• the co-founder of Microsoft

• Bill Gates

• the co-founder of Apple

• Steve Jobs

• invented the World Wide Web in 1991

• Tim Berners-Lee

This transformed how people found information on the internet with its search engine.

• IBM

• Google

• Intel

The Digital Revolution changed the way people...

• communicated

• worked

• lived

• All of these.

Identify whether the statement is a positive or a negative impact of the Digital Revolution.

Groups:

(a) Positives of Digital Revolution

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(b) Negatives of Digital Revolutiom

• video games and digital music became popular for fun

• concerns about privacy and security

• quicker communication with emails and mobile phone calls

• technology could be misused

• not everyone could afford this new technology

• computers helped people work faster

• some people were worried about how computers might replace jobs