New technology includes personal computers, digital cameras, mobile phones, the internet, space travel, test tube babies, washer/driers, video phones, DVD players, laptops and microwave ovens to name but a few.

This technology may have made our lives easier or more exciting or it may have made us lazy and less able to do things for ourselves...What do you think?

There has been many new discoveries in science and technology in the last 50 years.