1980 Rubik’s cube

Human Genome Project begins (mid '80's)

1992 Earth Summit: Rio de Janeiro on world environmental concerns; 1994 The English Channel Tunnel opens;

1996 UN membership 185 countries; Y2K over yet? 1998 J. Glenn returns to space (77 yrs. old); US & Russia: 1st Internat'l space station; 1999 World pop: 6 billion; the 'euro'; 2000 Donna MacLean patents self; e-bay asks to auction human soul

Science

1st Personal Computer the Altair 8800--a black box No keyboard & screen. avail in Kit form; 1977 1st successful PC (Apple II); 1978 1st test-tube baby; Apple: disk drive; 1979 Sony Walkman

1981 Reusable space vehicle ^ Columbia^ launched; 1982 1st artificial heart (Jarvik); IBM launches a PC and DOS; 1983 CD players go on sale; Apple: Lisa (uses Mouse & pull-down menus); IBM:PC=XT 1st PC w/ built-in hard drive; 1984 Optical disks; RAM

1986 Halley’s Comet rides again! Challenger space shuttle explodes (7 aboard die); 1987 NASF a supercomputer begins work in US (Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility)

1992 discoveries about silicon lead to new methods of storing info 1993 Jordans & Henring develop 1st optical computer to store own program

1995 Report more computers than cars! 1997 Over 30 million computers on Internet; sheep cloning successful; woolly mammoth remains discovered; 1999 Astronomers find evidence of other planetary systems; stem cell research ('vat- grown' tissue transplants)

1977 Barash *Sociobiology and behavior* 1979 Gibson *The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception*

1981 Hubel & Wiesel rec'v Nobel prize for work with visual cortex /brain research; Irvin Rock *The Logic of Perception*

1986 Baddeley's 'central executive' & 'slave systems' 1987 Cancian ^Blueprints of love^ (categories of love in US History)-Soc-; Browne *When Battered Women Kill*-soc-1989 Arlie Hochschild *The Second Shift: working parents & the revolution at home*-soc-

1990 Bacc Zinn & Eitzen *Diversity in American Families*-soc- 1991 Wixted & Ebbesen: power law of forgetting 1992 Gazzaniga on split brain research

Currently, both psych & soc are interested in how the demands of a rapidly changing world canvas affects the individual, the family, and society

1975 F>*Rollerball* 1976 F>*A Boy and His Dog* Piers Anthony: B> *Ox* 1977 F> *Star Wars* wow's special effects F> *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* 1979 F> *Alien* & F>*Mad Max* Philip Jose Farmer: B> *Riverworld & Other Stories*

1980 Emshwiller: ss>*Abominable* & Benford: ss>*Exposures* F>The Empire Strikes Back; 1982 F>* E.T.* & F> *Blade Runner* & F> *Tron* ; 1983 F>Return of the Jedi; 1984 Greg Bear: ss>*Blood Music* & Gibson: B> *Neuromancer F>*The Terminator* & F>*1984*

1985 F> *Cocoon* F> *The Quiet Earth* Octavia Butler: ss> *Bloodchild* Ben Bova: B> *Privateers* 1987 F> *Robocop* 1989 Poul Anderson: B> *The Boat of a Million Years*

1990 F> *Total Recall* & Margaret Atwood ss> *Homelanding* Alan Dean Foster: B> *Cyberway* 1992 Alan Dean Foster: B> *Codgerspace*; 1993 F> *Jurassic Park* 1994 Ursula K. Le Guin: ss> *The Matter of Seggri*

1995 F> *The City of Lost Children* &F> * Twelve Monkeys* & F> *Gattaca* 1999 F> *The Matrix* & F> *The 13th Floor* & F> *eXistenZ* & F> *Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace* 2000 F> *Mission to Mars* & F> *Galaxy Quest*