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What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0identify existing and emerging technologies that are changing the way goods are produced<\/h2>\r\n\"Photo<\/a>\r\n\r\nDo you even recognize these? These were the first flash drives for computers, in a way. Actually they are 3.5\" floppy disks that people used to transport their data from one computer to another. No flash drives, no cloud computing, no USB ports\u2014just a hard plastic disk that held a whopping 1.44 MB of data. Today you can purchase a\u00a0DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 Flash Drive with 1 TB of storage space. \u00a0In the old days you'd need 728,178 floppy disks to hold all that data.\r\n\r\nEmerging technologies are changing the way we conduct our lives and business. Now let's look at some of the ways in which those technologies are transforming the production and delivery of goods and services to customers.\r\n

LEARNING ACTIVITIES<\/h3>\r\nThe learning activities for this section include:\r\n