Simplified Speech #059 – Technological change
Episode description
It seems like technology changes so fast year after year—it’s sometimes pretty hard to keep up! In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Jeremy chat about the technological changes they’ve seen during their lifetimes.
Fun fact
When we were young, many of us could never have imagined having something like the iPhone in our pockets. Yet, some 12 years after it was first released, Apple Inc. has sold over 2.2 billion of them! That’s a lot.
Expressions included in the study guide
- Exponential growth
- To ride the wave
- Tech
- Nerd
- Multitasking
- To disconnect
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Simplified Speech #059 – Technological change
Episode description
It seems like technology changes so fast year after year—it’s sometimes pretty hard to keep up! In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Jeremy chat about the technological changes they’ve seen during their lifetimes.Fun fact
When we were young, many of us could never have imagined having something like the iPhone in our pockets. Yet, some 12 years after it was first released, Apple Inc. has sold over 2.2 billion of them! That’s a lot.Expressions included in the study guide
- Exponential growth
- To ride the wave
- Tech
- Nerd
- Multitasking
- To disconnect
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Sign inHosts: Andrew Bates and Jeremy Brinkerhoff
Music: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Let It Go by Scott Dugdale
Episode preparation/research: Andrew Bates
Audio editor: Andrew Bates
Transcriptionist: Heather Bates
Study guide writer: Matty Warnock
English editor: Stephanie MacLean
Operations: Tsuyoshi Kaneshima
Image: Samuel Zeller (Unsplash.com)
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