In the era of the internet

Author: (English) Felicia Lau
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This series of books aims to integrate art, science, and creativity into popular science reading. With vivid and innovative mini-sections and over a thousand lively, interesting, and intuitive images, it reveals the secrets of scientific knowledge in various fields such as painting, architecture, geography, teaching, physics, astronomy, and engineering technology from different perspectives. It is suitable for primary and secondary school students to supplement their extracurricular knowledge and enhance their scientific literacy. The "Let's Get Creative" DIY section in this book is particularly engaging, helping students transform their "dead" knowledge into "alive" knowledge, develop and explore their innovative spirit and practical abilities, and understand scientific principles through hands-on activities. This is also the secret to Leonardo da Vinci's success! Students, what are you waiting for? Open the book and embark on a journey of exploring the mysteries of scientific knowledge! You are the future Leonardo da Vinci! A story, a question, brings a life-changing invention, and hides an important scientific principle! We are entering an era of high information technology. Today, we use mobile phones to transmit photos and videos, plasma TVs in our homes replace traditional bulky TVs, and we use computers and the global internet every day to communicate with people around the world. How did these communication technologies come about? In The Network Age, we will immediately jump onto the information superhighway, go back in time, and see how humans used technology to communicate. You will learn what virtual reality is and where the fastest computers are. Then, let's create an artistic mobile phone booth, a virtual reality helmet, a handheld chip maze, and super cool CD coasters.