EMAIL We'd like to know your thoughts about our lists. We'll post a selection of the responses that we receive here. EMAIL We'd like to know your thoughts about our lists. We'll post a selection of the responses that we receive here.I read with interest the choices that were made by Team 3 for the invention and person of the century. Having lived just over half the century, I can remember when we had no television sets in our homes, when Martin Luther King was fighting for Civil Rights, the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the discovery of a cure for polio by Jonas Salk and my father's excitement over the discovery of the transistor. I was a young child during the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and recall my mother telling me how she met Eleanor Roosevelt on a railroad train travelling to New York city. I took telephones, electricity, airplanes, and cars for granted because they were invented before my time, but I am still amazed at the impact these inventions have had on our quality of life. I can still remember vividly where I was the first time I saw a person talking on a cell phone.
The first electronic digital computer was built during my first decade. As an adult I used a Model I Radio Shack computer in my gifted and talented class to teach students the basics of computing. It had 16 megs of memory and no storage device. Students would write programs in basic to get the computer to do something. We would then have to copy the program to paper in order to save it. I was thrilled when we were able to buy our first storage device, a tape recorder. Since then I have worked with computers as a very integral part of my work in education. I have also explored the Internet and its potential. I hope it will even the playing field and provide all mankind with information and connectivity. I continue to be amazed at how the computer and the Internet help us do our work. I can only imagine what the future will bring.
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