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In this Ted Talk by Jason Pointin, he mentioned of how technology have been invested and advanced in the past, so he compared to our current technology to the last generation. In the video, Pointin listed the all the important events which highlighted the America technology history, it was started from 1901 the Assembly line till 1969 the crew of Apollo 10 flew at 250000 miles per hour in the space towards the moon. It is useful during that time because the country tends to use technology help the human to solve the problem but in our current society that now technology is more focus on the electronic devices as Ponitin mentioned that since 1970 no human beings have been back to the moon and blithe optimism about technology's

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