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Lesson-1 - INFORMATION AGE

The document discusses the history and definition of the information age. It begins by defining information and the information age as a period starting in the late 20th century where information became easily accessible through computers and networks. It then provides a timeline of important events and inventions throughout history that contributed to the development of the information age, such as the development of writing systems, the printing press, the telegraph, and computers. The document also discusses types of computers, the world wide web, applications of computers in science, and factors to consider when checking the reliability of web sources.

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Lesson-1 - INFORMATION AGE

The document discusses the history and definition of the information age. It begins by defining information and the information age as a period starting in the late 20th century where information became easily accessible through computers and networks. It then provides a timeline of important events and inventions throughout history that contributed to the development of the information age, such as the development of writing systems, the printing press, the telegraph, and computers. The document also discusses types of computers, the world wide web, applications of computers in science, and factors to consider when checking the reliability of web sources.

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GROUP 3

THE INFORMATION
AGE
AT THE END OF THIS LESSON,
STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

DEFINE INFORMATION AGE;

DISCUSS THE HISTORY OF


INFORMATION AGE; AND

UNDERSTAND THE FACTORS THAT


NEED TO BE CONSIDERED IN
CHECKING WEBSITE SOURCES
WHAT IS INFORMATION?
INFORMATION

KNOWLEDGE COMMUNICATED OR
OBTAINED CONCERNNIG A SPECIFIC
FACT OR CIRCUMSTANCE.
(WEBSTER'S ENCYCLOPEDIC UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY)

FACTS PROVIDED OR LEARNED ABOUT


SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.
INFORMATION AGE
A PERIOD STARTING IN THE LAST
QUARTER OF THE 20TH CENTURY
INFORMATION BECAME EFFORTLESSLY
ACCESSIBLE THROUGH PUBLICATIONS
AND THROUGH THE MANAGEMENT OF
INFORMATION BY COMPUTERS AND
COMPUTER NETWORKS.

DIGITAL AGE

NEW MEDIA AGE


INFORMATION AGE
THE INFORMATION AGE IS A TRUE NEW
AGE BASED UPON THE
INTERCONNECTION OF COMPUTER VIA
TELECOMMUNICATIONS, WITH THESE
INFORMATION SYSTEMS OPERATING ON
BOTH A REAL-TIME AND AS NEEDED
BASIS. FURTHERMORE, THE PRIMARY
FACTORS DRIVING THIS NEW AGE
FORWARD ARE CONVENIENCE AND
USER-FRIENDLINESS WHICH, IN TURN,
WILL CREATE USER DEPENDENCE.
HISTORY
Year Event

3000 BC Sumerian writing system used pictographs to represents words

2900 BC Beginnings of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

1300 BC Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing were used

500 BC Papyrus roll was used

220 BC Chinese small seal writing was developed

100 AD Book (parchment codex)

105 AD Woodblock printing and paper was invented by the chinese

1455 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press using movable metal type
HISTORY
Year Event

1755 Samuel Johnson's dictionary standardized English spelling

The library of congress was established


1800
Invention of the carbon arc lamp

1824 Research on persistence of vision published

First viable design for a digital computer


1830s
Augusta Lady Byron writes the world's first computer program

1837 Invention of the telegraph in Great Britain and the United Sates

1861 Motion Pictures were projected onto a screen

1876 Dewey Decimal system were introduced

1877 Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated high-speed photography


HISTORY
Year Event

1899 First magnetic recordings were released

1902 Motion picture special effects were used

1906 Lee DeForest invented the electronic amplifying tube (triode)

1923 Television camera tube was invented by Zvorkyn

1926 First practical sound movie

1939 Regularly scheduled television broadcasting began in the US

1940s Beginning of information science as a discipline

1945 Vannevar Bush foresaw the invention of hypertext


HISTORY
Year Event

1946 ENIAC computer was developed

1948 Birth of Field-of-information theory proposed by Claude E. Shannon

1957 Planar transistor was developed by Jean Hoerni

1958 First integrated circuit

1960s Library of Congress developed LC MARC (machine-readable code)

1969 UNIX operating system was developed, which could handle multitasking

1971 Intel introduced the first microprocessor chip

1972 Optical laserdisc was developed by Philips and MCA


HISTORY
Year Event

1974 MCA and Philips agreed on a standard videodisc encoding format

1975 Altair Microcomputer kit was released: first personal computer for the public

1977 RadioShack introduced the first complete personal computer

1984 Apple Macintosh computer was introduced

Mid 1980s Artificial Intelligence was separated from information science

1987 HyperCard was developed by Bill Atkinson recipe box metaphor

1991 Four Hundred fifty complete works of Literature on one CD-ROM was released

RSA (encryption and network security software) internet security code cracked for a 48-bit
January 1997
number
INFORMATION ANXIETY
Human cost of information overload.

in the words of Richard Saul Wurman (Author of the book


'information Anxiety'), it is "produced by the ever-widening
gap between what we understand and what we think we
should understand. It is the black hole between data and
knowledge, and what happens when information doesn't tell
us what we can or need to know."

Read more:
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/information-
anxiety.html
TRUTHS OF THE INFORMATION AGE

01 Information must compete 04 The early word gets the perm

02 Newer is equated with truer 05 The early word gets the perm

You are what you eat and so is


03 Selection is a Viewpoint 06
your brain
TRUTHS OF THE INFORMATION AGE
Anything in Great Demand will
07 10 Media presence creates the story
be counterfeited

08 Ideas are seen controversial 11 The medium selects the message

Undead information walks


09 12 The whole truth is a pursuit
ever on
COMPUTER
An electronic device that stores and
processes data (information).

Runs on a program that contains the


exact, step-by-step directions to solve a
problem.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
1.Personal Computer

Single - user instrument.

Known as microcomputers since


they were a computer but built on a
smaller scale.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
2.Desktop Computer

PC that is not design for portability.

Workstation: desktop computer that


has a more powerful processor,
additional memory, and enhanced
capabilities for performing special
group tasks.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
4.Laptops

Portable computers that integrate


the essentials of a desktop
computer in a battery- operated
package.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
5.Personal Digital Assistant
(PDA)

Tightly integrated Computers that


usually have no keyboards but rely
on a touch screen for user input.

Typically smaller than a paperback,


lightweight, and battery -powered.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
6.Mainframes

Huge Computer systems that can fill


and entire room.

Used by large firms that process


millions of transaction every day.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
7.Wearable Computers

Materials that are usually integrated


into cellphones, watches, and other
small objects or places.
Perform common computer
applications such as databases,
emails, multimedia, and schedules.
THE WORLD WIDE WEB
(INTERNET)
Claude E. Shannon - "Father of Information Theory"

Internet - world wide system of interconnected


networks that facilitate data transmission among
innumerable computers.
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER
IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Bioinformatics
Application of information technology to store, organize,
and analyze vast amount of biological data.

SWISS-PROT protein sequence database

Rational Drug Discovery

Plant Biotechnology
HOW TO CHECK RELIABILITY
OF WEB SOURCES
1. Who is the author of the article/site?
2. Who published the site?
3. What is the main purpose of the site? Why did the
author write it and why did the publisher post it?
4. Who is the intended audience?
5. What is the quality of information provided on the
website?
THANK YOU
FOR LISTENING

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