• The world filled with technological wonders

• Horse-drawn carriages now replaced by streets and highways jammed with cars, trucks and buses

• Planes carrying people across the continent in a matter of hours

• Appliances powered by electricity such as radios, TVs, refrigerators, washing machines

Effect of technology on 1900-to-1950 time-traveler

• Not much difference: still drive a car, live in a suburban house, has TV

Effect of social change on 1900-to-1950 time-traveler

• Not much difference: same factory and office environment. 8 or 9 am - 5 pm work schedule. Wear suit and tie. Most coworkers are white males. Very few women and nonwhites.

• Marry young to the same person and work for the same company for the rest of life. Expects his children to do the same.

Effect of social change on 1900-to-1950 time-traveler

• New dress code, schedule, and rules. Office workers in high position dressed in jeans and open-necked shirts. Young workers might have piercings and tattoos.

• Ethnic jokes become inappropriate

• Smoking and drinking in workplace is no

• Core people make up a majority of the Creative Class and include those in science and engineering, architecture and design, education, arts, music and entertainment.

• Social changes are not imposed on us.

• Both in work and lives, creativity is more important than ever.

• (Technological and economic creativity) + (artistic and cultural creativity) = new industries from computer graphics to digital music and animation.

• Dimensions of the transformation = work + lifestyle + time + community.

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