Developments in IT and mobile

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  • Developments in IT and mobile.
    • the first time people saw the world they lived on was in 1968 when APOLLO 8 took a photo.
    • Telegraph
      • cables across the ATLANTIC replaced 3 week boat journeys for communication.
    • Broadband and fibre-optics
      • transport data through cyberspace, owned by NATIONAL GOVT'S or TNC's such as GOOGLE.
    • GPS and GIS
      • first GPS launched in the 1970's, but there are NOW 24.
    • The internet
      • ARPANET was the basis of the internet which was started in 1967 by ARPA. in 1969, the reality came true when 4 university computers interconnected.

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