134 Outcome: Technology and Production of Goods

What you’ll learn to do: identify existing and emerging technologies that are changing the way goods are produced

Do you even recognize these? These were the first flash drives for computers, in a way. Actually they are 3.5″ floppy disks that people used to transport their data from one computer to another. No flash drives, no cloud computing, no USB ports—just a hard plastic disk that held a whopping 1.44 MB of data. Today you can purchase a DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 Flash Drive with 1 TB of storage space.  In the old days you’d need 728,178 floppy disks to hold all that data.

Emerging technologies are changing the way we conduct our lives and business. Now let’s look at some of the ways in which those technologies are transforming the production and delivery of goods and services to customers.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

The learning activities for this section include:

• Reading: The Technology of Goods Production
• Self Check: Technology and Production of Goods

Take time to review and reflect on this activity in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.