The document discusses key social, cultural, political, and technological developments that occurred during the 1960s. It covers the rise of consumerism and youth culture, the growth of television and credit cards, advances in space exploration and medicine, the civil rights movement and rise of the hippie counterculture, and the women's liberation movement. Music and fashion trends of the decade are also summarized.

1. The Sixties

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3. The 60’s

5. Consumer Culture

6. Ad Fads1950s 60sScientific FloweryDry/ clear cut/ conformity be yourselfProduct push above the systemIndividualityHip/ unconformity

7. Detachment

8. Esp. TV

9. Ideal worldTV1950s1960sCreated popular media95% (15% color)PoliticsJFK news conference 1961Presidential debatesDaytime programs1st lunar landing 1969Talk showsBlack/white ColorTensions CBS and RCAControversyCensorshipMinisters oppose

10. Credit Cards1950sNot common1960sFrank X. McNamaraVery popular20,000 growingCondensed Controversial“Devils’ playthings”Delayed consequencesoverspending

11. FashionSkirts/DressesForm fittingSuit stile coat w/button accentsKnee highSmall waistHairBob cutShoesRounderOffset pencil skirts

12. Men FashionDivertedSuit and Tie Turtle necksSweaters, Blazers, VestsNylon, rayon, and blends Colored patternsNehru (Indian inspired)Beatles, The Monkeys, Dr. DevilForm fittingButtons

14. Advances In Technology

15. Everyday TechnologyTelevisionsMore widely used and bought by many through out America87% of households have TV, up from 9% in 1950Used for advertising different products from companies and broadcasting important events to the American publicAstroturfCo-invented by James M. Faria and Robert T. WrightUsed as artificial turfOriginally sold under the name "Chemgrass"AnsafoneUsed as an Automatic Telephone Answering MachineInvented by Kazuo HashimotoAutomatic teller machineFirst ATM invented by Don Wetzel from TexasChemical Bank Ad’s slogan: "On Sept. 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!" Revolutionized the way Americans dealt money and turned global commerce into a 24/7 affair

17. ElectronicsStart of the Calculator Revolution

18. Complicated motor-assisted mechanical adding machines.

19. Used complex gear systems

20. It could perform Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division and one model could even calculated Square Root

21. The First Computer

22. Various computers and companies were invented and foundedHewlett-Packard, Sharp, IBM, Nokia, Sony, AMD, Intel, etc.First Computer Mouse invented

24. IBM and Seven DwarfsIBM

25. 1965 Held 65.3% of computer IndustryBurroughs, Sperry Rand (formerly Remington Rand), Control Data, Honeywell, GE, RCA, and NCR.NOT partners$10 bill world wide inventoryDwarfs produced 30%

26. GE “King of the Dwarfs”3.7% share in 1965$24 bill inventory by 1969

27. Medic!!Heart Pacemaker

28. Developed by Medtronic

29. Used on patients who have irregular heartbeats

30. Developed isotope powered pacemakers

31. Soft contact lenses

32. More comfortable and tolerable

33. Made of hydrogel and allows oxygen to flow freely through eye

34. Many vaccines produced

35. Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, etc.

36. ScienceThe Laser

37. Invented by Theodore Maiman

38. uses a synthetic ruby to build first true laser

39. Mainly used in optical drives in computers and fiber-optic communication

40. TIROS-1

41. The first weather satellite to successfully be launched into space

42. First of a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites Took pictures and video while it drifted in spaceWas 19 inches (0.48 m) tall and 42 inches (1.1 m) in diameter.

43. Echo 1

44. Used to redirect transcontinental and intercontinental telephone, radio, and television signals between ground based receivers.

45. Space ExplorationMariner II

46. The first interplanetary probe to reach Venus

47. Became the first spacecraft to return useful scientific information successfully from another planet

48. Telstar

49. The first satellite to broadcast television signals

50. Space Race

51. Race between the soviets and the Americans to prove who’s technology was more advanced by getting a man onto the moon

52. Other Technological AdvancesAluminum Cans used for the first time

53. Legos

54. Platform shoes come into fashion

55. The Pill

56. Enovid10- the first birth control pill

57. Went on sale for 50 cents a day.

58. Silicone Breast Implants Used for the first time in Houston, Texas The Slinky

59. “Instant Insanity”

60. Precursor to the Rubix Cube

61. 8-TrackEntertainment

62. Theatre and FilmBroadwayExpensive but popularMusicalsEdward Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia WolfMoviesMusicals hit the big screenMy Fair Lady (1964)Sound of Music (1965)Disney for childrenScience Fiction2001: A Space Odyssey (1967) Stanley KubrikJames Bond and The GraduateMPAA rating changedSex in film: more explicit and not as tabooPortrayal of womenPolitical CinemaDr. Strangelove

63. Television/RadioTV The Flintstones, Andy Griffith, Ed Sullivan Show, Star Trek, The Twilight ZoneUsed for advertisementNews and current eventsRadio Main form of music accessAM to FM shift