LECTURE 13:
THE INFORMATION
AGE
Prepared by:
DIVINE GRACE S. BATENGA, MSc, LPT
LESSON OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able
to:
⦿ define information Age;
⦿ discuss the history of Information Age; and
⦿ understand the factors that need to be consodered
in checking website sources
The Information Age
⦿ starts in the last quarter of the 20th century when
information became accessible
⦿ Digital Age
⦿ New Media Age
⦿ Theory of Information Age - James R. Messenger
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Theory of Information Age
⦿ interconnection of computers via
telecommunications
⦿ convenience and user-friendliness
⦿ user dependence
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 3000 BC - Cuneiform ⦿ 2900 BC - Hieroglyphic
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1300 BC - tortoise shell ⦿ 500 BC - papyrus roll was
and oracle bone writing used
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 220 BC - Chinese small ⦿ 100 AD - Book (parchment
seal writing was codex)
developed
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 105 AD - Woodblock printing and paper was
invented by the Chinese
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1455 - Johannes Guternberg ⦿ 1755 - Samuel Johnson's
invented the printing press using dictionary standardized English
movable metal type spelling
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1802 - The Library of
Congress was established,
Invention of carbon arc
lamp
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1824 - Research on
persistence of vision
published
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1830's - first viable design
for a digital computer
⦿ Augusta Lady Byron writes
the world's first computer
program
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1837 - invention of the telegraph in Great
Britain and the United States
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1861 - motion pictures were projected onto a
screen
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1876 - Dewey Decimal
system was introduced
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1877 - Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated high-speed
photography
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1899 - first magnetic
recording were released
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1906 - Lee DeForest invented the electronic
amplifying tube (triode)
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1923 - television camera
tube was invented by
Zvorkyn
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1926 - first practical sound ⦿ 1939 - regularly scheduled
movie television broadcasting
began in the US
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1940s - Beginnings of ⦿ 1945 - Vannevar Bush
information science as a foresaw the invention of
discipline hypertext
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1946 - ENIAC computer was developed
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1948 - birth of field-of-information theory proposed
by Claude E. Shannon
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1957 - Planar transistor
was developed by Jean
Hoerni
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1958 - First integrated
circuit
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1960s - Library of
Congress developed LC
MARC (machine-readable
code)
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1969 - UNIX operating
system was developed,
which could handle
multitasking
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1971 - Intel introduced the ⦿ 1972 - Optical laserdisc
first microprocessor chip was developed by Philips
and MCA
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1974 - MCA and Philips agreed on a standard videodisc
encoding format
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1975 - Altair
Microcomputer Kit was
released: first personal
computer for the public
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1984 - Apple Macintosh ⦿ Mid 1980s -Artificial
computer was introduced intelligence was
separated from
information science
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ 1987 - Hypercard was ⦿ 1991 - Four hundred fifty
developed by Bill Atkinson complete works of
recipe box metaphor literature on one CD-ROM
was released
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History and Emergence of the Information Age
⦿ January 1997 - RSA
(encryption and network
security software) Internet
security code cracked for
a 48-bit number
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As man evolved, information and its dissemination
has also evolved in many ways...
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COMPUTERS
Computer
⦿ Computers are among the most important
contributions of advances in the Information Age
to society.
⦿ An electronic device that stores and process data
(information).
⦿ Runs on a program that contains the exact, step-by-
step directions to solve a problem.
Types of Computers
⦿ Personal Computer (PC)
• single-user instrument
• first known as
microcomputers since they
were a complete computer
but built on a smaller scale
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Types of Computers
⦿ Desktop Computer
• PC that is not designed for
portability
• Desktop can be set up in a
permanent spot
• Has a more powerful processor,
and additional memory
• Enhanced capabilties for
performing special group
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Types of Computers
⦿ Laptops
• portable computers that
integrate the essentials of
a desktop computers in a
battery-powered package
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Types of Computers
⦿ Personal Digital Assistants
(PDAs)
• tightly integrated
computers that usually
have no keyboards but rely
on touch screen
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Types of Computers
⦿ Server
• refers to a computer that
has been improved to
provide network services
to other computers
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Types of Computers
⦿ Mainframes
• Huge computer systems
that can fill an entire room
• They are used especially by
large firms to describe the
large, expensive machines
that process
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Types of Computers
⦿ Wearable Computers
• Involve materials that are
usually integrated into cell
phones, watches, and other
small objects or places
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THE WORLD WIDE
WEB
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Origin of the Internet
⦿ CLAUDE E. SHANNON
• American Mathematecian
• “Father of Information Theory”
• Worked at Bell Laboratories
• Published a paper proposing
that information can be
quantitatively encoded as a
sequence of ones and zeroes
Origin of the Internet
⦿ INTERNET -worldwide system of interconnected
networks that facilitate data transmission
⦿ Developed during 1970s by the Department of
Defense
⦿ Used mainly by scientists to communicate with
other scientists
⦿ Remained under government control until 1984
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Early problem faced by Internet
⦿ Speed
⦿ Phone lines could only transmit information at a
limited rate
⌾ FIBER-OPTIC CABLES allowed for billions of
bits of information to be received every minute
⌾ INTEL developed faster microprocessors
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page
⦿ directors of Stanford Research Project
⦿ built a search engine that listed
results to reflect page popularity when
they determined that the most
popular result would frquently be the
most usable
⦿ 1 million dollar investment from
friends, family and other investor
⦿ launched their company in 1998
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GOOGLE is now the world's most popular search engine,
accepting more that 200 million queries daily!
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New forms of communication
⦿ Electronic mail (e-mail)
⦿ America Online and Compuserve (chatroom)
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CURRENT INFORMATION AGE
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Mark Zuckerberg
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Issues on World Wide Web
Internet created a
technological divide that
increased the gap between
higher class and lower class
society
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Issues on World Wide Web
The unregulated and loose
nature of the internet
allowed ponography to be
broadcast to millions of
homes.
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Issues on World Wide Web
Cyberbullying is an issue
that poses alarm worldwide.
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HOW TO CHECK THE
RELIABILITY OF WEB
SOURCES
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1. Who is the author of the article/site?
⦿ About/More About the Author
⌾ credentials
⌾ expertise
⌾ education
⌾ experience
⌾ affiliations
2. Who published the site?
⦿ How to find out?
⌾ website domain
⌾ reputable organization
⌾ suffix on the domain name
• .edu = educational
• .com = commercial
• .mil = millitary
• .gov = government
• .org = nonprofit
3. What is the main purpose of the site?
⦿ sell product
⦿ personal hobby
⦿ public service
⦿ sholarship
⦿ general information
⦿ opinion
4. Who is the intended audience?
⦿ general public
⦿ age group
⦿ people from a particular geographic area
⦿ members of particular profession or with specific
training
5. What is the quality of information
provided on the website?
⦿ timelines
⦿ cite sources
⦿ reputable sites
⦿ sites links
EXAMPLES OF
USEFUL AND
RELIABLE WEB
SOURCES
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USEFUL AND RELIABLE WEB SOURCES
⦿ AFA e-Newsletter (Alzheimer's Foundaton of
America newsletter)
USEFUL AND RELIABLE WEB SOURCES
⦿ AMERICAN MEMORY - the Library of Congress
historical digital collection
USEFUL AND RELIABLE WEB SOURCES
⦿ Bartleby.com Great Books Online
USEFUL AND RELIABLE WEB SOURCES
⦿ Chronicling America
USEFUL AND RELIABLE WEB SOURCES
⦿ Cyber Bullying
USEFUL AND RELIABLE WEB SOURCES
⦿ Drug information websites:
⌾ National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus
⌾ Drugs.com
⌾ PDRhealth
USEFUL AND RELIABLE WEB SOURCES
⦿ Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources
USEFUL AND RELIABLE WEB SOURCES
⦿ Google Books
USEFUL AND RELIABLE WEB SOURCES
⦿ Google Books
End of lecture...
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References:
⦿ Serafica J.P.et. al, (2018). Science, Technology and
Society Rex Book Store, Inc.
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