Friday, March 27, 2020

Gates Meets Rockefeller

Choose one of the essays topics below and write a five paragraph response DUE THURSDAY, ????, 2020.

If the Industrial Age and the Information Age are comparable, what can we learn or predict about the latter based on the former?


1. If the pillars of the Industrial Age were things like oil, steel, transportation, and banking...What are the pillars of the Information Age? Who are the Rockefeller's, Carnegie's, Vanderbilt's, and JP Morgan's of today?

http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/



2. How is the new connectedness changing our society and the world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06BXgWbGvA





3. If the 20th century and the Industrial Age brought America onto the world stage, how will the country do in the Information Age?




4. If the things we make, make us... how might the Information Age affect what we value?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg4dDVpSgnM


"Imagined, drawn, carved, stamped, hewn, forged..."