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0:23 you ready so today i'm gonna talk about
0:26 technology this is a great topic
0:30 because we all use technology every day
0:32 you're using technology to watch this video
0:33 video
0:36 right now so let's talk about some
0:39 different kinds of technology today
0:42 one really important type of technology
0:44 is computer technology
0:47 computers today are much different than
0:49 computers from the past
0:53 20 or 30 years ago computers were really limited
0:54 limited
0:56 they couldn't do the things that
0:58 computers do today
1:01 in the past they were also really big
1:04 but today computers come in many
1:06 different sizes
1:10 computers today are fast powerful
1:13 and easy to use i remember when i
1:16 first started using the computer i was
1:19 six years old i liked playing computer games
1:20 games
1:23 but all the games were very basic at
1:24 that time
1:27 i still thought they were really fun today
1:28 today
1:31 computer games are very complex alright
1:34 now let's talk about cell phones when i
1:35 was a kid
1:39 not many people had cell phones most
1:40 people used
1:43 landlines which are phones inside your house
1:44 house
1:47 nowadays not many people have landlines
1:50 everyone has cell phones now i remember
1:51 getting my first
1:54 cell phone when i was 12 years old
1:58 i thought it was so cool these days
2:01 phones are extremely important because
2:02 you can do
2:04 almost anything on your phone but i
2:05 think the most
2:08 important technology today is the internet
2:09 internet
2:12 most people use the internet every day
2:12 to do
2:16 many things people like me need the internet
2:16 internet
2:19 in order to work if i don't have internet
2:19 internet
2:23 i can't work we also use the internet to study
2:23 study
2:27 to shop and to entertain ourselves
2:30 i can't imagine not having the internet
2:33 i use it for many hours every day
2:36 how about you how many hours a day
2:40 do you use the internet okay now let's
2:41 talk about
2:44 technology of the past for example
2:47 one really important invention was the
2:49 motorized vehicle
2:52 or the car before cars people traveled by
2:53 by
2:56 horse by foot or in other ways
2:59 when the car was invented people were
3:00 able to travel
3:04 more easily cars from the past looked
3:07 very different from today's cars i think
3:10 old cars looked pretty cool another really
3:10 really
3:14 important invention was electricity
3:17 before electricity people had to use
3:21 candles and fire for light at night
3:24 the cities were much darker than today
3:27 nowadays our cities have so much light
3:28 at night
3:31 and of course we use electricity for so
3:33 many different things today
3:36 sometimes the electricity goes out and
3:40 everything stops working i hate when the
3:42 electricity goes out
3:44 one more important invention was the television
3:46 television
3:49 in the past television was the greatest
3:52 form of entertainment everyone sat down
3:53 in the evenings
3:57 and watched tv nowadays more people
4:00 watch tv shows on their computers
4:03 like on netflix many young people
4:05 prefer doing everything on their
4:07 computer or cell phone
4:10 alright that's all for today leave a
4:12 comment and tell me what your favorite
4:14 technology is
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