Summary
Throughout our research, we aimed to answer the question about the impact of technology on the average consumer after World War II. From a variety of sources for each decade spanning from 1950 to the present day, the trend of increasing use and dependence upon consumer technologies made itself clear. The extent of the usefulness of each technology or service invented depended largely on who it would directly effect; and in and after the 1980s, computing technologies rose to the forefront of new innovations and eventually would impact nearly everybody in all societies. By providing the generalized historical context of each decade and tying it to technologies, we helped to paint a clearer picture about how life was constantly changing, caused by the technologies themselves, or the changing face of the world. Additionally, for each decade, we wrote a detailed spotlight on a specific technology which held an arguably higher significance in its time. In doing this, greater connections between these technologies and their evolutions are made clearer. The evaluation sections of each decade weighs in a wider perspective of the technologies of the decade and describes their overall effects on life.
Throughout our research, we aimed to answer the question about the impact of technology on the average consumer after World War II. From a variety of sources for each decade spanning from 1950 to the present day, the trend of increasing use and dependence upon consumer technologies made itself clear. The extent of the usefulness of each technology or service invented depended largely on who it would directly effect; and in and after the 1980s, computing technologies rose to the forefront of new innovations and eventually would impact nearly everybody in all societies. By providing the generalized historical context of each decade and tying it to technologies, we helped to paint a clearer picture about how life was constantly changing, caused by the technologies themselves, or the changing face of the world. Additionally, for each decade, we wrote a detailed spotlight on a specific technology which held an arguably higher significance in its time. In doing this, greater connections between these technologies and their evolutions are made clearer. The evaluation sections of each decade weighs in a wider perspective of the technologies of the decade and describes their overall effects on life.