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4 notions au programme

jusqu'en 2020

Idea of Progress / l'idée de progrès

science - industry -

computing - space -

medicine - genetics -

renewables - transportation -

human rights - women's rights -

civil rights - racial progress -

democracy

Activer

la traduction en français

et la prononciation en anglais

change

change the face of the nation

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/us/
25parks.html

game changer

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/04/
555091418/parents-lobby-states-to-expand-newborn-screening-test-for-rare-brain-disorder

change makers

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/01/26/
688168838/how-teenage-sisters-pushed-bali-to-say-bye-bye-to-plastic-bags

milestone

https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2018/nov/21/
the-international-space-station-turns-20-in-pictures

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/
obituaries/dick-leitsch-dead.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/11/
466286219/in-milestone-scientists-detect-waves-in-space-time-as-black-holes-collide

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/
remembering-a-milestone-for-immigrants-and-america/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/04/
solar-powered-plane-first-leg-us

landmark

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/02/
deadly-gene-mutations-removed-from-human-embryos-in-landmark-study

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/apr/14/
genetics.research

historic

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/25/us/
neil-armstrong-obit

watershed year

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/26/
946901965/for-scientists-who-study-virus-transmission-2020-was-a-watershed-year

pave way / the way for N

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/
science/h-boyd-woodruff-dead-antibiotics-researcher.html

usher in

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/
675254096/the-revolution-will-be-driverless-autonomous-cars-usher-in-big-changes

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/
business/harold-rosen-dead-engineer-satellite.html

revolutionize

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/19/
robots-revolutionising-our-world

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/us/
leonard-herzenberg-immunologist-who-revolutionized-research-dies-at-81.html

revolution

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/
675254096/the-revolution-will-be-driverless-autonomous-cars-usher-in-big-changes

Full Episode | The Industrial Revolution | BBC Documentary 9 August 2018

The Industrial Revolution

was one of the greatest transformative moments in history,

revolutionising the way humans worked,

how they ordered their societies

and how they thought about their lives

all over the world.

But was it really a happy coincidence

that a handful of geniuses

unleashed the fruits of their inventiveness

on a grateful nation at roughly the same time?

And if so why did it happen in Britain

as opposed to France or Germany

or even the United States?

Told with an international perspective,

Professor Jeremy Black explores

how a unique international position

allowed 19th century Britain

to become the richest, most powerful nation on earth

and to set in motion the changes

that soon swept over the planet.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYln_S2PVYA

Victorian Age > Industrial Revolution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=GYln_S2PVYA - video - BBC - 9 August 2018

progress

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/26/
949763228/from-polio-to-the-covid-vaccine-dr-peter-salk-sees-great-progress

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/10/
301450515/obama-the-story-of-america-is-the-story-of-progress

British theatre > progress in diversity

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jun/09/
covid-19-theatre-diversity

our faith in progress

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/
rosetta-philae-space-comet-outer-limits-human-excellence

progressive causes

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/
arts/music/a-folk-revivalist-who-used-his-voice-to-bring-out-a-nations.html

liberal

build a better world

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/09/25/
443149821/u-n-dreams-big-17-huge-new-goals-to-build-a-better-world

PEOPLE in Silicon Valley

tend to embrace certain assumptions:

Progress, efficiency and speed are good.

Technology can solve most things.

Change is inevitable;

disruption is not to be feared.

And, maybe more than anything else,

merit will prevail. April 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/
technology/how-big-data-is-playing-recruiter-for-specialized-workers.html

progress

go forward

create

design

conceive

make

invent

inventor

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/05/
trevor-baylis-obituary

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/
business/international/artur-fischer-inventor-with-more-patents-than-edison-dies-at-96.html

famous inventors

http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventors/
Famous_Inventors_Nationality_or_A_Z.htm

invention

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/20/
583682937/the-father-of-the-internet-sees-his-invention-reflected-back-through-a-black-mir

patent

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/
business/international/artur-fischer-inventor-with-more-patents-than-edison-dies-at-96.html

technology > jobs

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/17/
technology-created-more-jobs-than-destroyed-140-years-data-census

Politics or technology – which will save the world? 2014

The internet, the mobile phone

and now the self-driving car

– technology

is revolutionising people's lives

in ways that make politics

seem obsolete.

So should we put the techies in charge?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/23/
politics-technology-save-world-david-runciman

science > timeline > UK, USA

invent

inventor

invention

scientific advances

https://www.thedailybeast.com/scientific-advances-of-2011

DNA sequencing

Advances in technology

have made it much easier,

faster and less expensive

to do whole genome sequencing

— to spell out

all three billion letters

in a person's genetic code.

Falling costs

have given rise to speculation

that it could soon become

a routine part of medical care,

perhaps as routine

as checking your blood pressure.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/26/
534338576/routine-dna-sequencing-may-be-helpful-and-not-as-scary-as-feared

achieve

scientific achievements

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/dec/17/
spaceexploration.highereducation

achievement

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/
samuel-dubois-cook-dead-educator-racial-pioneer.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/
programmes/p04k2g71 - 11 December 2016

breakthrough

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/20/
the-virus-free-scientific-breakthroughs-of-2020-chosen-by-scientists

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/
711723383/watch-earth-gets-its-first-look-at-a-black-hole

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/
science/using-medicine-and-science-to-improve-the-quality-of-life.html

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/30/
stem-cell-treatment-damaged-hearts-monkeys

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/24/
multiple-sclerosis-ms-research-breakthrough

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jun/26/
genetics.forensicscience

medical breakthrough

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/09/
689924838/how-to-demand-a-medical-breakthrough-lessons-from-the-aids-fight

breakthrough discovery

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/11/
gravitational-waves-discovery-hailed-as-breakthrough-of-the-century

scientific breakthrough

https://educationalgames.nobelprize.org/educational/
medicine/dna_double_helix/readmore.html

Big-Bang breakthrough

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/17/
290866227/scientists-announce-a-big-bang-breakthrough

pathbreaker

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/
obituaries/eleanor-maccoby-dead.html

discovery

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/11/
gravitational-waves-science-thrilled-by-discovery-ripples-in-space-time

pathbreaking discovery

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/us/
janet-d-rowley-who-discovered-that-cancer-can-be-genetic-dies-at-88.html

great discovery

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/
opinion/it-is-in-fact-rocket-science.html

groundbreaking

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/02/
deadly-gene-mutations-removed-from-human-embryos-in-landmark-study

groundbreaking / groundbreaking work

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/
health/dr-donald-morton-melanoma-expert-who-pioneered-a-cancer-technique-
dies-at-79.html

groundbreaking device

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/30/
google-glass-pictures-online

groundbreaking therapy

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/04/
doctors-hail-world-first-as-womans-advanced-breast-cancer-is-eradicated

portable gadgets

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gallery/2017/mar/10/
influential-portable-gadgets-sony-walkman-in-pictures

make history

innovative

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/
business/fighting-covid-19-innovative-tech.html

innovator

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/
technology/robert-taylor-innovator-who-shaped-modern-computing-dies-at-85.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/
technology/google-alphabet-restructuring.html

biological revolution

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/25/
dna-double-helix-60-years-biological-revolution

discovery

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/mar/29/
genome-research-adventure

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/25/
dna-double-helix-60-years-biological-revolution

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/shortcuts/2013/apr/23/
should-change-name-higgs-boson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/dec/17/
spaceexploration.highereducation

discover

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/us/
janet-d-rowley-who-discovered-that-cancer-can-be-genetic-dies-at-88.html

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/21/
dna-body-clock-ageing

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/
health/dna-research-points-to-new-insight-into-cancers.html

uncover

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/08/
665615440/researchers-uncover-a-circuit-for-sadness-in-the-human-brain

find

find out

develop

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/
hilary-koprowski-developed-live-virus-polio-vaccine-dies-at-96.html

develop a coronavirus vaccine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/
inside-the-race-to-develop-a-coronavirus-vaccine-covid-19

COVID vaccine

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/26/
949763228/from-polio-to-the-covid-vaccine-dr-peter-salk-sees-great-progress

research and development R&D

improve

make better

leap

giant leap

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/7
31660780/one-giant-leap-explores-the-herculean-effort-behind-the-1969-moon-landing

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/17/
564850067/back-flipping-robot-a-giant-leap-for-robot-kind

Apollo 11 > Neil Armstrong:

"That's one small step for (a) man,

one giant leap for mankind " July 20, 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVzNXG0NxjY

science

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/02/16/
586544153/black-panther-science-heroes-and-how-comics-changed-the-world

be dedicated to science

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04k2g71 - 11 December 2016

women in science

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04k2g71 - 11 December 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2013/oct/15/
women-science-history-ada-lovelace-day

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/15/
nerd-cabaret-wikipedia-ada-lovelace-day-2013

http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/15/
women-technology-science-careers-her-in-hero

scientist

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/us/
politics/talents-on-display-at-white-house-science-fair.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/17/
290866227/scientists-announce-a-big-bang-breakthrough

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/21/
dna-body-clock-ageing

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/20/
artificial-intelligence-impact-lives

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/
health/dna-research-points-to-new-insight-into-cancers.html

mathematician

research

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/us/
leonard-herzenberg-immunologist-who-revolutionized-research-dies-at-81.html

researcher

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/21/
621908340/researchers-find-herpes-viruses-in-brains-marked-by-alzheimers-disease

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/
hilary-koprowski-developed-live-virus-polio-vaccine-dies-at-96.html

engineer

https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2013/apr/26/
young-engineer-year-genetics-lab-video

renawable energy, renewables USA

https://www.npr.org/tags/351731724/renewable-energy

health

medicine

medicine > drugs

physician

vaccine against N

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/
hilary-koprowski-developed-live-virus-polio-vaccine-dies-at-96.html

killer diseases

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/09/07/
9-terrifying-diseases-that-could-kill-you-right-now.html

killer diseases

such as TB, cancer, AIDS

AIDS / AIDS pandemic

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/
health/cure-still-out-of-reach-but-hiv-is-invincible-no-more.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/12/
world_aids_day_-_2011_1.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2010/11/30/
stars-who-fight-aids.html

HIV infection

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/12/
world_aids_day_-_2011_1.html

new developments in the treatment of the virus

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/
health/cure-still-out-of-reach-but-hiv-is-invincible-no-more.html

flu

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2008/10/29/
photos-a-history-of-the-flu.html

virus, viruses

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/
hilary-koprowski-developed-live-virus-polio-vaccine-dies-at-96.html

spread

gene > glossary

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
genome/glossary.html

gene therapy UK / USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/17/
629543151/insurers-and-government-are-slow-to-cover-expensive-car-t-cancer-therapy

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/apr/30/
gene-therapy-trials-heart-patients

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jun/26/
genetics.drugs

pioneering treatment > replacement gene

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/apr/30/
gene-therapy-trials-heart-patients

treat cancer by editing genes

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/21/
585336506/doctors-in-china-lead-race-to-treat-cancer-by-editing-genes

design better babies

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/
us/11retro-baby-genetics.html

genetics

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/
us/11retro-baby-genetics.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2013/apr/26/
young-engineer-year-genetics-lab-video

genetic entrepreneur

J. Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics > sequencing genomes USA

A Genetic Entrepreneur

Sets His Sights on Aging and Death March 4, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/
business/in-pursuit-of-longevity-a-plan-to-harness-dna-sequencing.html

editing the human genome / genome editing

Genome editing

is a powerful procedure

that has already been a game-changer

in helping scientists to understand

the roles of genes in health and diseases.

It coopts

the natural immune defences of bacteria

to create what is often described

as “molecular scissors”.

These can cut out, but also replace,

strands of DNA with great precision.

It is possible to change

single letters of the DNA code.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/02/
genome-editing-how-to-modify-genetic-faults-and-the-human-germline

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/science/
jennifer-doudna-crispr-cas9-genetic-engineering.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/03/20/
394311141/scientists-urge-temporary-moratorium-on-human-genome-edits

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/science/
biologists-call-for-halt-to-gene-editing-technique-in-humans.html

decode the human genome / human genome project

https://www.theguardian.com/science/human-genome-project

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/mar/29/
genome-research-adventure

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2000/jun/26/
genetics.drugs

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/26/
science/rivals-reach-milestones-in-genome-race.html

Genome facts

A rough draft of the human genome

was completed in June 2000.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/facts.html

deoxyribo-nucleic-acid DNA

The DNA of humans (...)

is composed of approximately

3 billion base pairs,

making up a total

of almost a meter-long stretch of DNA

in every cell in our bodies.

https://educationalgames.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/
dna_double_helix/readmore.html

Rosalind Elsie Franklin UK 1920-1958

In 1951

the young British scientist

began one

of the key scientific investigations

of the century.

Rosalind Franklin

produced an x-ray photograph

that helped show the structure of DNA,

the molecule that holds the genetic code

that underpins all life.

The discovery was integral

to the transformation of modern medicine

and has been described

as one of the greatest scientific achievements ever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04r7h7k - Mon. 6 February 2017

understand heredity

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/her_cri.html

genetic testing dilemmas

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/
genetic-testing-dilemmas-intro.html

The Chimera Quandary

Is It Ethical To Create Hybrid Embryos?

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/08/07/
489082005/the-chimera-quandary-is-it-ethical-to-create-hybrid-embryos

human cloning

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/18/
human-cloning-heart-disease-genes

stem cell research

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june14/
stemcells_01-29.html

Genome editing:

how to modify genetic faults – and the human germline UK 2 September 2015

Is it time for a debate

on whether there are any circumstances

where there is an ethical case

for ‘editing’ human embryos?

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/02/
genome-editing-how-to-modify-genetic-faults-and-the-human-germline

cure

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/
health/cure-still-out-of-reach-but-hiv-is-invincible-no-more.html

root out

life expectancy

live longer and better

turn 100

centenarian

The number of centenarians in the UK

is set to double by 2020.

So what's it like to be 100?

Words and pictures

by Chris Steele-Perkins 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/mar/19/
100-year-olds-britain-photographs-chris-steele-perkins

physics

physics > "God particle" / Higgs Boson 2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/mar/14/
scientists-particle-higgs-boson

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57574534/
god-particle-why-the-higgs-boson-matters/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/12/19/
the-god-particle-more-2012-scientific-breakthroughs-photos.html

physics > physicist ( ≠ physician)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/
science/john-r-huizenga-physicist-at-fore-of-nuclear-era-dies-at-92.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/us/
harold-m-agnew-physicist-present-at-birth-of-the-nuclear-age-dies-at-92.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/
science/heinrich-rohrer-physicist-who-won-nobel-dies-at-79.html

The 10 best physicists

From subatomic to cosmic,

the pick of the pioneers 12 May 2013

Galileo 1564-1642

Isaac Newton 1643-1727

Albert Einstein 1879-1955

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2013/may/12/
the-10-best-physicists

Albert Einstein 1879-1955

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1955/apr/19/
fromthearchive

nanotechnology

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/
science/heinrich-rohrer-physicist-who-won-nobel-dies-at-79.html

atom

USA > atom bomb > Hiroshima, Japan, August 1945

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/
science/john-r-huizenga-physicist-at-fore-of-nuclear-era-dies-at-92.html

USA > the world’s first hydrogen bomb Pacific, 1952

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/
science/john-r-huizenga-physicist-at-fore-of-nuclear-era-dies-at-92.html

nuclear power / energy

nuclear plant

nuclear waste

nuclear disaster

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan
_-_new_fears_as_the_trage.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan
_-_vast_devastation.html

aeronautics

plane / airliner

the world's largest plane

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/14/
713304506/with-a-wingspan-wider-than-a-football-field-the-worlds-largest-plane-takes-fligh

space

USA > National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA

https://www.nasa.gov/

rocket

satellite

Hubble telescope

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010
_hubble_space_telescope_ad.html

Internation Space Station

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/
journeys_to_the_international.html

orbit

space race

space exploration

space tourism

man on the moon

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/
man_on_the_moon_future_and_pas.html

CBS Coverage of Apollo 11 Lunar Landing NASA July 20, 1969

CBS Coverage of Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

CBS Television coverage

of the July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing,

anchored by legendary newscaster

Walter Cronkite.

YouTube > NASA 17 July 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96EPhqT-ds

USA > Neil Alden Armstrong 1930-2012

the first man to set foot on the moon

“Neil was among the greatest

of American heroes.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/
science/space/neil-armstrong-dies-first-man-on-moon.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/08/
neil-armstrong-first-man-on-moon-dies-at-82.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/
remembering_apollo_11.html

USA > Neil Armstrong > Apollo 11

About six and a half hours later

at 10:56 p.m. ET

on July 20, 1969,

Armstrong, at age 38,

became the first person

to set foot on the moon.

He uttered the now-famous phrase:

"That's one small step for (a) man,

one giant leap for mankind."

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/
731660780/one-giant-leap-explores-the-herculean-effort-behind-the-1969-moon-landing

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html

USA > 1968 > Apollo 8

First human journey to another world

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/21/
679282476/1968-when-apollo-8-first-orbited-the-moon-and-saw-the-earth-rise-in-space

technology / tech

state-of-the-art N

the state of the art

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/20/
433000643/how-close-are-we-really-to-a-robot-run-society

invest in the cutting edge

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/
world/15clinton.html

the very cutting edge of science UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04k2g71

Wearable Technology: Beyond the Wrist NYT 7 March 2014

Wearable Technology: Beyond the Wrist Video Molly Wood | The New York Times 7 March 2014

The Times's Molly Wood

explores why the makers of wearable devices

are so focused on people's wrists

and what the future may hold for fashionable tech.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPzwIs2p36M

gizmo

gadget

device

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/
business/fighting-covid-19-innovative-tech.html

wearable technology / gadgets / devices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=mPzwIs2p36M&list=PL4CGYNsoW2iCzzn4pZBJ58IZAAsSgng2V

smartphone

computer / PC

computer power

supercomputer / supercomputing

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/
technology/ibm-to-announce-more-powerful-watson-via-the-internet.html

quantum computer

performing complex calculations

thousands of times faster

than existing supercomputers

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/
google-buys-a-quantum-computer/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/06/
quantum-computing-physics-jeff-forshaw

electronic wasteland

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2011/07/24/
ghana-digital-waste-pieter-hugo-photos.html

technology > the Internet

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/20/
583682937/the-father-of-the-internet-sees-his-invention-reflected-back-through-a-black-mir

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/
business/media/the-circle-a-novel-by-dave-eggers-prompts-debate-on-technology.html

Information and Technology IT

the information superhighway

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/30/
your-internet-memories

state of the art

https://www.nytimes.com/column/state-of-the-art

Steve Jobs Official Trailer Universal Pictures 2015

Steve Jobs - Official Trailer (HD) Video Universal Pictures 1 July 2015

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEr6K1bwIVs

USA > Steve Jobs 1955-2011

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/06/steve-jobs-obituary

visionary > USA > Steve Jobs 1955-2011

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/07/
141154870/after-jobs-who-will-be-next-american-visionary

Apple > iPhone

https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/
100000005421370/iphone-10th-anniversary-destroy.html - September 12, 2017

visionary > USA > Douglas Engelbart 1925-2013

inventor of the computer mouse

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/
technology/douglas-c-engelbart-inventor-of-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-88.html

the Internet / the web / cyberspace

technology giants such as Apple, IBM

know

knowledge

know-how

expertise

education

e-learning

using the internet to widen access to education

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/apr/23/
sal-khan-academy-tutored-educational-website

massive online open courses – moocs

online courses > open online education

massive open online courses, or MOOCs

pioneering online learning networks

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/
technology/moocs-online-learning.html

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/aug/19/
moocs-man-leading-uk-foray-simon-nelson-futurelearn

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/05/03/
180824705/is-massively-open-online-education-a-threat-or-a-blessing

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/
opinion/online-courses-high-hopes-trimmed.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/us/
after-setbacks-online-courses-are-rethought.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/
opinion/sunday/bruni-colleges-identity-crisis.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/apr/29/
massive-open-online-courses

online courses / free online college classes

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/
education/colleges-adapt-online-courses-to-ease-burden.html

free, world-class education for anyone

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/apr/23/
sal-khan-academy-tutored-educational-website

there's a revolution coming in education

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/apr/23/
sal-khan-academy-tutored-educational-website

plagiarise essays

copy and paste material

from the internet into an essay

and pass it off as one's own

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/
story/0,9830,1250783,00.html - broken link

Internet plagiarism in schools

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jun/20/
internet-plagiarism-rising-in-schools

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jan/19/
schools.1419education

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/jun/04/
schools.gcses

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/jan/18/schools.uk1

information

information revolution

The information revolution

raises profound questions

about the future of books,

reading and libraries

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/
opinion/e-books-libraries-and-democracy.html

topic

learn

think

books

Books will disappear.

Print is where words go to die 2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/jun/05/
bookscomment.mediaguardian1

e-books

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/26/
ebooks-booming-britain-abroad-anti-piracy

Wikipedia

on Wikipedia

go to Wikipedia

cut and paste

plagiarize

Google

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/02/
how-stop-using-google-search-services

Is Google making us stupid? 2008

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/
is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/

google

Internet addiction 2008

Addiction to internet 'is an illness'

New evidence

shows that heavy users

suffer isolation, fatigue

and withdrawal symptoms

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/23/
news.internet

the deleterious effect of multitasking 2013

Stuart Goldenberg

Google’s Aggregator Gives Way to an Heir NYT May 9, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/technology/personaltech/
three-ways-feedly-outdoes-the-vanishing-google-reader.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/07/
243762058/stanford-professor-who-sounded-alert-on-multitasking-has-died

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/
opinion/sunday/a-focus-on-distraction.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/
business/clifford-nass-researcher-on-multitasking-dies-at-55.html

Digital Devices

Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/
technology/25brain.html

virtual reality V.R. USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/20/
529146185/in-googles-vision-of-the-future-computing-is-immersive

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/
technology/virtual-reality-companies-look-to-science-fiction-for-their-next-play.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/
realestate/virtual-reality-to-sell-homes.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/02/04/
465530255/a-virtual-view-of-a-slaughterhouse

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/
opinion/sundance-new-frontiers-virtual-reality.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/29/
464885833/we-sampled-the-gastronomic-frontier-of-virtual-reality

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/
opinion/sundance-new-frontiers-virtual-reality.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/01/09/
462410885/is-oculus-rifts-600-price-too-high-for-virtual-reality-to-succeed

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/12/30/
461432244/is-2016-the-year-virtual-reality-finally-goes-mainstream

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/12/17/
459839163/grandfather-of-vr-the-virtual-can-show-the-beauty-of-the-real

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/10/22/
450573400/affordable-virtual-reality-opens-new-worlds-for-people-with-disabilities

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/
technology/google-virtual-reality-system-aims-to-enliven-education.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLq5eZesCE

artificial intelligence AI

https://deepmind.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/
technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/jan/28/
demis-hassabis-15-facts-deepmind-technologies-founder-google

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/20/
artificial-intelligence-impact-lives

robot

http://www.npr.org/tags/128216998/robots

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/163718918/robotics

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2020/nov/19/
should-robots-have-faces-video

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/
business/fighting-covid-19-innovative-tech.html

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/28/
can-we-stop-robots-outsmarting-humanity-artificial-intelligence-singularity

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/17/
564850067/back-flipping-robot-a-giant-leap-for-robot-kind

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/20/
433000643/how-close-are-we-really-to-a-robot-run-society

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/05/
robot-revolution-rise-machines-could-displace-third-of-uk-jobs

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/17/
technology-created-more-jobs-than-destroyed-140-years-data-census

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/
408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/05/18/
407648886/attention-white-collar-workers-the-robots-are-coming-for-your-jobs

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/19/
robots-revolutionising-our-world

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/
opinion/sunday/steven-rattner-fear-not-the-coming-of-the-robots.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/17/
290888529/with-googles-robot-buying-binge-a-hat-tip-to-the-future

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/second-machine-age-will-require-more-human-creativity/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june14/tech2_01-02.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june14/tech1_01-02.html

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/20/artificial-intelligence-impact-lives

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/15/robot-almost-human-icub

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/03/18/the-world-s-coolest-robots.html

Google’s massive humanoid robot

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/21/
googles-massive-humanoid-robot-can-now-walk-and-move-without-wires

microbots

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/
science/microbots-robots-silicon-wafer.html

robotics

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/19/
robots-revolutionising-our-world

robotic technology

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/
second-machine-age-will-require-more-human-creativity/

robotic dog

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/
business/fighting-covid-19-innovative-tech.html

machine

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/28/
can-we-stop-robots-outsmarting-humanity-artificial-intelligence-singularity

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/
408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine

flying cars

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/10/
are-flying-cars-ready-for-takeoff

autonomous vehicle A.V.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/
675254096/the-revolution-will-be-driverless-autonomous-cars-usher-in-big-changes

driverless car

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/
675254096/the-revolution-will-be-driverless-autonomous-cars-usher-in-big-changes

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/20/
433000643/how-close-are-we-really-to-a-robot-run-society

mass surveillance > biometrics USA

using people’s

unique physiological characteristics,

like their fingerprint ridges

and facial features,

to learn or confirm their identity

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/
technology/never-forgetting-a-face.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/02/28/
589477976/biometric-data-and-the-rise-of-digital-dictatorship

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/26/
534131967/facial-recognition-may-boost-airport-security-but-raises-privacy-worries

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/23/
401466507/biometrics-may-ditch-the-password-but-not-the-hackers

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/
technology/never-forgetting-a-face.html

biometric technology / biometric authentication tools UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/10/
sci-fi-surveillance-europes-secretive-push-into-biometric-technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/
opinion/biometric-technology-takes-off.html

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/
beyond-passwords-new-tools-to-identify-humans/

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/10/
iphone-5s-fingertip-scanner

President Obama Speaks on Civil Rights White House April 10, 2014

President Obama Speaks on Civil Rights Video White House 10 April 2014

President Obama delivers the keynote address

at the LBJ Presidential Library Civil Rights Summit.

April 10, 2014.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plOzoSJA1Ik

USA > civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/
792579944/rep-john-lewis-a-force-in-the-civil-rights-movement-dead-at-80

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/us/
25parks.html

USA > civil rights activist

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/19/
544769294/dick-gregory-comedian-and-civil-rights-activist-dies-at-84

USA > civil rights crusader

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/19/
544769294/dick-gregory-comedian-and-civil-rights-activist-dies-at-84

USA > quest for racial equality

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/world/americas/
25iht-obit.html

USA > racial progress

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/
opinion/race-american-history.html

USA > pioneer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/us/
edward-thomas-policing-pioneer-who-wore-a-burden-stoically-dies-at-95.html

pioneer

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/05/
518644481/thomas-starzl-trailblazer-in-organ-transplantation-dies-at-90

equal rights

USA > Civil rights > Slogan > "We shall overcome"

segregation

South Africa > apartheid

South Africa > African National Congress ANC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mukJ7OO1Yhc

human rights

slavery

emancipation

abolition

abolish

USA > Abraham Lincoln > End to slavery - September 23, 1862

https://www.theguardian.com/news/1862/oct/06/
mainsection.fromthearchive

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1862/oct/05/
usa.fromthearchive

Les suffragettes Ni paillassons, ni prostituées

Documentaire Réalisation: Michèle Dominici 2011 53 min

Dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle,

au Royaume-Uni,

des femmes commencent à s’organiser

pour militer en faveur du droit de vote.

En 1905, dans l'Angleterre Edwardienne,

les femmes n'en ont toujours pas le droit.

Les injustices qu'elles subissent

ne sont pas entendues

et leurs revendications sont nombreuses.

Il faudra attendre 1928 pour que celles

que l’on surnomme les suffragettes

obtiennent gain de cause.

En dix ans,

grâce à leur farouche détermination,

elles vont faire passer le Royaume-Uni

du vote censitaire au suffrage universel,

en redéfinissant totalement

la notion de citoyenneté.

Les femmes,

traditionnellement

considérées comme inférieures,

et écartées des affaires politiques,

peuvent désormais s’exprimer

au même titre que les hommes.

Combat pour l'égalité

Ce film retrace

l’histoire de cette révolution

en se penchant

sur le parcours de cinq femmes

qui ont consacré leur vie à ce combat

pour l’égalité et la justice.

Certaines ont prôné

la désobéissance civile

ou le lobbying

auprès des parlementaires.

D’autres ont opté

pour la provocation et l’action violente,

même si cela devait les conduire

en prison ou à la mort.

Quel que soit le choix des armes,

c’est grâce à leur acharnement,

à leur sens politique aigu

et à des stratégies d’une grande modernité

qu’elles ont finalement remporté cette bataille

contre le gouvernement.

http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/044436-000/les-suffragettes

USA > 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

Women's Right to Vote 1920

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote

shall not be denied or abridged

by the United States or by any state

on account of sex."

The amendment guarantees

all American women the right to vote.

Achieving this milestone

required a lengthy and difficult struggle;

victory took decades of agitation and protest.

Beginning in the mid-19th century,

several generations

of woman suffrage supporters

lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied,

and practiced civil disobedience to achieve

what many Americans considered

a radical change of the Constitution.

Few early supporters lived

to see final victory in 1920.

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=63

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/amendment_19/

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/script-intro.html

http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxix

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun04.html

UK > late 19th century / early 20th century > Suffragettes

UK > The Representation of the People Act

gives voting rights to women over 30

1918

For the same voting rights as men,

women had to wait another ten years.

The Equal Franchise Act 1928,

which gave women the vote

on same terms as men,

received Royal Assent

on 2 July 1928.

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/
archives-highlights/archives-the-suffragettes/archives-the-first-women-in-parliament-1919-1945/

- broken link

in the past

people used to Base Verbale

≠

now

people are used topreposition N

in the near future

in the future

in the coming years / decades

in the distant future

dystopian

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/
technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley - review

Brave New World is a classic

- it is a dystopian novel

similar in theme to George Orwell's

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/29/
review-brave-new-world-huxley

people

human being

individual

mankind

womankind

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/mar/07/
womankind-worldwide-international-womens-day

humankind

humanity

resident

inhabitant

Related > Anglonautes > Science

science > timeline

scientists

Related > Anglonautes > History > 20th century > USA

20th century > Civil rights

17th, 18th, 19th, 20th century

English America, America, USA

Racism, Slavery,

Abolition, Civil war,

Abraham Lincoln

1920 > women's suffrage

19th amendment to the Constitution

Related > Anglonautes > History > 20th century > UK

1939-1945 > WW2 > Women at war

late 19th century / early 20th century > Suffragettes

Related > Anglonautes > Learning

France > lycées > anglais

Première et Terminale > tronc commun

thèmes, vocabulaire et documents

au programme du bac

jusqu'en 2020

Related > Anglonautes > Vocapedia

terrorism > USA > NSA, security, eavesdropping, surveillance

surveillance > biometrics

artificial intelligence (A.I.)

robotics

robotics > robots > androids, humanoids

economy > jobs > robots

war / terrorism > air > weapons > drones

sea > weapons > warships, submarines

space > Moon > Apollo 11

First lunar landing

20 July 1969

space > Moon > Apollo 8

First human journey to another world

21-27 December 1968

Units of Measurement

body, health, medicine, drugs,

viruses, bacteria, diseases,

disability, health care / insurance

cells, DNA, genes, genetics, cancer

mental health / psychology

Related > Podcasts

The Guardian > Tech Weekly UK

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/
techweekly

NPR > Science podcasts USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/science/

NPR > All Tech Considered USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/