DECADES PROJECT

Produced By: Ashley Pham & Emily Broome

WHAT WERE THE MAJOR

T E C H N O L O G I C A L A D VA N C E S T H A T
CAME ABOUT DURING THIS DECADE?
Credit card
1950

Polio Vaccine Barcode

1952
1955

Hard Drive
1956

W H O WA S R E S P O N S I B L E F O R T H E I N V E N T I O N
A N D W H A T W E R E T H E M O T I VA T I O N S B E H I N D
IT?
Credit Card- Polio Vaccine- Bar Code- Norman Hard DriveRalph Schneider Dr. Jonas Salk Joseph Woodland Reynold B.
Johnson

Business

Saving Children

A way of
identifying
machine parts

For storing
information

H OW WA S E V E RY DAY L I F E A F F E C T E D
BY THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY?
Credit Card- Over 1.5 billion people in the US have a credit
card today. It helps us buy products that we need at the
moment, but youll have to pay the bank back.
Polio Vaccine- Before Polio vaccine, 13,000-20,000 were
paralyzed by polio and 1000 people died per year.
Bar Code- We use bar codes almost on a daily basis.
Buying, registering, and transactions.
Hard Drive- Without a hard drive, computers could not be
made, we couldnt store information on our devices.

H OW WA S T H E W O R K P L AC E A F F E C T E D
BY THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY?
Credit Card Made transactions easier, and allowed
people to buy things even if they didnt have the money
at the time

Polio Vaccine- It prevents many people from getting

polio.
Bar code- We use barcodes on almost a daily basis.
Hard drive- Most of our technology needs a hard drive
to work.

WHAT WERE THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE

EFFECTS OF THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY?
Credit CardPositive- Easy
Negative- Abuse of credit card
Polio VaccinePositive- Prevents polio from happening most of the time
Negative- people build an immunity
Bar codePositive- Can use barcode to buy products
Negative- Can get manipulated
Hard DrivePositive- We use it for many modern devices.
Negative- You can lose stored info.

W H AT N E W E T H I C A L I S S U E S C O U L D
T H I S C R E AT E F O R T H E W O R K P L AC E ?
Credit Card Irresponsibility leads to debt, and many credit card
companies sue their customers
Polio Vaccine Increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) in
India from a synthetic polio virus in the vaccine, which is given to the children
without a parents consent
Bar Code Allows businesses to collect a consumers commercial
transactions, and gives non-governmental individuals access to personal
information such as address and social security number, which is encoded on
the back of a drivers license
Hard Drive- When the hard drive crashes, beforehand, make sure that the
company can retrieve the lost information.

W E R E T H E R E A N Y M A J O R L AW S U I T S,
C A S E S, E T C . T H AT W E R E D I R E C T LY
R E L AT E D T O T H I S T E C H N O L O G Y ?
Credit Card 1992 Gary Podell claims unknown party obtains credit cards,
makes large purchase, and never pays debt, he then claims that Diners Club sues to
collect
Polio Vaccine 2003 Islamic clerics in Nigeria claimed that WHO planned to
decrease African American and Middle Eastern populations with traces of HIV in
vaccine
Bar Code Tim White of San Juan Island sues San Juan County for using ballottracking software that monitors the flow of ballots through the County Elections office
Hard Drive- Western Digital Corp. is sued by about 1 million consumers who
claim that its computer hard drives stored less material than promised

POLIO VACCINE VISUAL