World History › Section Z · The contemporary world › Topic Z.3
Science and technology today
Since 1945, computers, the internet and modern medicine have changed how people work, talk, protest and survive disease. This topic follows the digital revolution and the fight against epidemics, and asks who has shared in the benefits.
In this topic
- From room-sized machines to the microchip
- Building the internet
- Phones in every pocket
- Worked example: did social media cause the Arab Spring?
- Control, surveillance and misinformation
- Medical breakthroughs
- Worked example: how smallpox was eradicated
- HIV and AIDS
- COVID-19
- New frontiers
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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