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Module 3: Lesson 1: The Information Age

Information Age is defined as a period starting in the last quarter of the


20th century when information became effortlessly accessible through
publications and through the management of information by computers and
computer networks.

• The Information Age is also called the Digital Age and the New Media
Age because it was associated with the development of computers.

According to James R. Messenger, who proposed the Theory of


Information Age in 1982, "the Information Age is a true new age based upon
the interconnection of computers via telecommunications, with these
information systems operating on both a real-time and as-needed basis.

The table below traces the history and emergence of the Information
Age (United States American History).

Year Event

Sumerian writing system used pictographs to represent


3000 BC
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)

Woodblock printing and paper were invented by the


105 AD
Chinese

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press using


1455,
movable metal type.

Samuel Johnson’s dictionary standardized English spelling.


1755,
In In

The Library of Congress was established.


1802
Invention of the carbon arc lamp. In In

1824 Research on persistence of vision was published.

1830s First viable design for a digital computer.


Augusta Lady Byron wrote the world’s first computer
program.

Invention of the telegraph in Great Britain and the United


1837
States. In In

1861 Motion pictures were projected onto a screen. In In

1876, Dewey Decimal system was introduced.

Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated high-speed


1877
photography. In In

1899 First magnetic recordings were released. In In

1902 Motion picture special effects were used.

Lee DeForest invented the electronic amplifying tube


1906, (triode). In In

1923 Television camera tube was invented by Zvorkyn.

1926 First practical sound movie. In In

Regularly scheduled television broadcasting began in the


1939
US.

Beginnings of information science as a discipline emerged.


1940s
In

1945- Vannevar Bush foresaw the invention of hypertext.

1946, ENIAC was developed. In In

Birth of field-of-information theory was proposed by Claude


1948
E. Shannon. In In

1957 Planar transistor was developed by Jean Hoerni.

1958 First integrated circuit.

Library of Congress developed LC MARC (machine-readable


1960s, code).

UNIX operating system was developed, which could handle


1969,
multitasking. In In

1971, Intel introduced the first microprocessor chip.


1972 Optical laserdisc was developed by Philips and MCA. In In

MCA and Philips agreed on a standard videodisc encoding


1974,
format. In In

Altair Microcomputer Kit was released: the first personal


1975,
computer for the public

1972 in 1984, the first complete personal computer.

1984 Apple Macintosh computer was introduced.

Artificial Intelligence was separated from information


Mid-1980s,
science.

Hypercard was developed by Bill Atkinson recipe box


1987,
metaphor. In In 1987.

Four hundred fifty complete works of literature on one CD-


1991
ROM were released.

January RSA (encryption and network security software's internet


1997 security code was cracked for a 48-bit number

Due to the abundance of information, it was difficult to collect and manage it


starting in the 1960s and 1970s. During the 1980s, real angst set in. Richard
Wurman called it "Information Anxiety." During the 1990s, information became the
currency of the business world.

Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to store, organize, and


analyze vast amounts of biological data that are available in the form of sequences
and structures of proteins - the building blocks of organisms - and nucleic acids-
the information carrier. This was established because of the need to create
databases of biological sequences. The application includes the Human Genome
Project, Pharmacogenomics Drug Discovery, Gene Finder, and Annotator.

The World Wide Web (Internet)


Several historians trace the origin of the Internet to Claude E. Shannon, an
American mathematician who is considered the “Father of Information Theory,"
worked at Bell Laboratories, and at the age of 32, he published a paper proposing
that information can be quantitatively encoded as a sequence of ones and zeroes.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, directors of a Stanford research project, built a search
engine that listed results to reflect page popularity when they determined that the
most popular result would frequently be the most usable. After talking with family,
friends, and other investors and contributing $1 million, the researchers launched
their company in 1998. Google is now the world's most popular search engine,
accepting more than 200 million queries daily.

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