INFORMATION AGE (1970’S – TODAY) ▹Brought about major changes in agriculture,

ALSO KNOWN AS: manufacturing, mining, transportation, and

▹ Computer Age technology.
▹ Digital Age ▹Had a profound effect on the social, economic, and
▹ New Media Age cultural conditions of the world.
▹ Age of Entrepreneurship
Inventions and Innovations of the Information Age
It refers to the current age wherein information is There were many different inventions that came
still seen as a commodity yet its mode of recording, about because of the Information Age, one of which
storage, delivery and playback relies heavily on was the computer.
digital technology.
INTERNET
This era brought about a time period in which oAllowed people to access information with the
people could access information and knowledge
touch of a button.
easily.
oHas turned society into homebodies.
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY oPeople can do everything online.
Encompasses the breaking down of information into
the readable and easily transferable zero-one Several important people of the Information Age:
computer binary, focusing on media gadgets that TIM BERNERS LEE- Created the World Wide Web
could encode and decode such a binary. STEVE JOBS- Created the first effective personal
computer called the Apple 1.
APPLE 1
INFLUENCES OF THE PAST ON THE INFORMATION ▹Huge advancement in computer sciences and it
AGE carved the path for the computers we have now.
RENAISSANCE PERIOD ▹Apple has created iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac, and
By creating the idea inventions. Apple TV.
-The basic idea was used to develop modern BILL GATES- Founded Microsoft, which creates
inventions. almost everything that has to do with computers.
▹It changed the literature. Microsoft develops programs like Microsoft Office,
-During the Renaissance, people began to write Windows, and many other influential products..
realistic books and not just religious stories.
-People's mindset changed, It was no longer about Changes of the Information Age
what humans could do for God, but what humans Changed the way people do everything
could do for themselves. This way of thinking is -Made people lazier
called HUMANISM. -Also makes a large amount of the population
smarter.
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION -They became more mature and more educated due
Changed the modern era by introducing important to things like the computer and the Internet.
scientists such as Galileo, Copernicus, and Sir Isaac Made industrial countries stronger.
Newton. -With online companies being some of the most
-Discoveries paved the way for modern tools, successful and economically stimulating businesses
inventions, and innovations. out there, economies receive more from them and
keep our world turning
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Has reshaped governments with new technology Anything prior to the first written accounts of
being created every day history is prehistoric (meaning”before history”),
-Governments can now have more advanced and including earlier technologies. About 2.5 million
effective militaries. years before writing was developed, technology
-Because of things like the Internet, new laws had to began with the earliest hominides who used stone
be put in place to stop hacking, piracy, and identity tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt,
theft. cut food, and bury their dead

Good Impacts of the Information Age 200,000 years ago

Developed communication services and the world humans began to transmit and record information
has not been the same since in rock carvings.
Ex. texting, email, and social media
▹People around the world can become more PREHISTORIC FORMS OF MEDIA:
educated. Cave paintings
-People learn new languages easier and many books Sculptures
have been translated into different languages Rock/wood carvings

Jobs have also became easier, and some jobs can

even be done from the comfort of your own home. ELECTRONIC AGE OF MEDIA (1930-1980)
In The Electronic Age – The Age of Implosion,
Bad Impacts of the Information Age McLuhan discusses the idea that the explosion of
▹There are people in the world that believe they the electronic age has actually created an implosion
can live their entire life through the Internet. of our models of perception. This is to say that we
▹Huge criminal organizations rely on hacking into are now ever-more aware of individuals at much
government systems and obtaining confidential greater distances than we once were. “All men are
information to continue their way of life now involved in one another physically and
Impacts our work ethics by distracting us and psychically as happens when they occupy a very
causing us to lose interest in the task we are doing. small village. And as global villagers, all men must
▹Created a shortage of jobs and making many jobs now accommodate their judgments to the complex
obsolete because machines are now being used to interdependence understood and manipulated by
do the work humans once did. villagers.

The invention of the transistor ushered in the

PREHISTORIC AGE electronic age. People harnessed the power of
OF MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY transistors that led to the transistor radio,
(1500 B.C.-1500 AD) electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this
This is the period of human activity between the use age, long distance communication became more
of the first stone tools~3.3 million years ago and the efficient.
invention of writing systems, the earliest of which
appeared~ 5300 years ago. EXAMPLE FORMS OF MEDIA
TRANSISTOR RADIO
Technology predates recorded history. History is the  A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver
study of the past using written records; it is also the that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their
record itself development in 1954 they became the most
popular electronic communication device in history, machine that has a light inside it and can be used to
with billions manufactured during the 1960s and make the writing or pictures on a sheet of plastic
1970s. Their pocket size sparked a change in appear on a screen or wall. The abbreviation OHP is
popular music listening habits, allowing people to also used.
listen to music anywhere they went. An LCD projector is a type of video projector for
displaying video, images or computer data on a
TELEVISION 1941 screen or other flat surface. It is a modern
a system for transmitting visual images and sound equivalent of the slide projector or overhead 
that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to projector.
broadcast programs for entertainment, information,
and education.

MAINFRAME COMPUTER
LARGE ELECTRONIC COMPUTER
A data processing system employed mainly in large
organizations for various applications, including bulk
data processing, process control, industry and
consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning,
and financial transaction processing.

A device that computes, especially a

programmable electronic machine that performs
high-speed mathematical or logical operations or
that assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise
processes information.

THE APPLE COMPUTERS

 Steve W. and Steve J. got some money together
and had some printed circuit boards made, then
planned to sell the computer as a kit. This is also
when they officially formed the "Apple Computer
Company" - Jobs used to work in an apple orchard. 
Only about 200 Apple 1 computers were made in
total. Excited by their success, Woz went on to
design the Apple II - one of the greatest computers
of all time.
The Apple II, or Apple ][, became one of the most
popular computers ever. Although it is a vast
improvement over the Apple I, it contains the same
processor and runs at the same speed. 

OHP, LCD Projectors

An overhead projector is a