NJECC Conference 2000

3-6-00

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Agricultural Age:

5000 to 1000 years ago, much of the world was moving into what we now refer to as the age of agriculture:

Peasant Plowing with Oxen Douglas W. MacLeod 19th - 20th Century Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco http://www.thinker.org

• Raw materials came from the fields
• Processed in the home
• Largely consumed in the home

Industrial Age

Over the last 200 years, much of the world has moved into what we now refer to as the Industrial Age.

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• Raw materials came from mines & forests
• Processed in factories
• Distributed through merchantile commerce

Information (knowledge) Age

Over the last decade, much of the world has moved into the Information or Knowledge Age.

Assembled from Staples (http://www.staples.com), OfficeDepot (http://www.officedepot.com), and DELL (http://www.dell.com) computer web sites.

• Raw materials are minded from the Internet
• Information products are processed using information processing and communication software are hardware
• Products are distributed via the Internet