Above is an early advertisement for Thomas Edison's "phonograph." It used wax cylinders but played very similarly to the early Victrola, another Edison creation.

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TECHNOLOGY ! is a program collaboration between  an outstanding team of program documentary producers, writers and directors and Central Florida Public Broadcasting, Inc. The public television documentary series for national and international distribution, is a new and exciting view of high technology, highlighting many surprising direct and indirect benefits all of us share today.

Compelling stories and people characterize TECHNOLOGY !

The series will be produced almost entirely in Central Florida. One of America’s top television talents is the host.

TECHNOLOGY ! shows the fantastic progress being made through technology study and development. We celebrate the benefits and discoveries, the results that have altered our lives and made them better.  The benefits are not just “for science” or “for industry” but, as we will see repeatedly, for every one of us, in many exciting and surprising ways. 

TECHNOLOGY ! is a documentary series about how our high technology has changed us and is changing our world every day. 

We will discover in the first episode that Government funding is  responsible for much of the technology that we use today. Not only have important products come out of Government funded research, but every day, new companies are being formed and grown with the assistance of Government programs..  

Next, we learn how sophisticated simulation technologies, what we call “serious make-believe”, have revolutionized training programs. Not just for pilots anymore, sophisticated new simulators train doctors, police officers and many others, too.

Further along we look at lasers and special optical devices that use light to do thousands of tasks unheard of five years ago.

By reaching out to embrace new technologies we have changed ourselves. We think differently about time.  We see history from a new viewpoint.  From international relationships, to compelling insights in ecology, from dazzling electronics to artificial limbs, Man’s exploration of new technologies has provided all of us a multitude of unexpected benefits.