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Focus on
New & Emerging

Technologies

A unique insight into New and Emerging Technologies
and their potential to impact on our lives. This well
researched and thoughtfully written resource makes
use of YouTube video clips to engage students and fill
in the gaps left by the standard textbooks.

Industry
• the nature of employment
• biometrics
• drones
• virtual and augmented reality
• disruptive technology
• revision quiz

Enterprise Industry: Drones
• what is enterprise?
• cooperatives
• crowd funding
• government grants
• not-for-profit organisations
• fairtrade
• virtual marketing and retail
• revision quiz
Enterprise: Virtual Marketing & Retail
People, Culture & Society
• changes in the workplace
• fashion
• privacy & ethics
• technology push and market pull
• cultural differences, faiths & beliefs
• design for the disabled and elderly

Systems & Production
• scale of production Design for the Disabled and Elderly
• computer aided design Environment & Sustainability
• computer aided manufacture • what is sustainability?
• computer integrated manufacturing • linear and circular economies
• just in time • life cycle assessment
• flexible manufacturing systems • cradle-to-cradle
• lean manufacturing • six Rs of sustainability
• standard components • finite and non-finite resources
• quality management • pollution and waste disposal
• revision quiz • transportation of goods
• planned and perceived obsolescence
Online version: included as • revision quiz
part of the DT Resource Pack
on pages 10-11.
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