Information Society

Loren Grace Jaranilla-Anunciado

Technology as a source of information

• Do they all provide

information or just
noise?

• How can we be sure

that technology
share knowledge
and truth?
What is information?
Information
• facts about a situation,
person, event, etc.
• facts provided or
learned about
something or
someone.
• what is conveyed or
represented by a
particular
arrangement or
sequence of things.
• communicate
meaning
Human’s quest for understanding the natural
world was first done through naming and
classifying objects.
THE POWER OF WORDS
AND LANGUAGE
Questions to ponder?
• How is it possible that one’s idea can
simultaneously exists in one’s mind and in
another?
• How is it possible that human beings can
communicate through words and thus form a
community?
• Does the power of communicated words come
from the speaker, who is the thinker and the
source, or from the listener, who is the recipient
of the communication?
The scientific search for truth recognized
the usefulness of language and the
ability it gave to make sense of nature.
Words can function across space and
time without reducing their meaning.
Thinking in terms of a common system
being generated by a speaker and
received by the listener is useful in the
pursuit of knowledge.
The Role of Language in the quest

• mainly used for linguistic

communication.
• basis of human progress.
• central to ones identity as an
individual
• as a marker of a social group.
MATHEMATICS AS THE
LANGUAGE OF NATURE
Technology in the modern world is the
fruit of science.
Since people have discovered the laws and
language of nature, they can develop technology
that uses these laws and languages for their
benefits. This is mathematics, the great
contribution of Isaac Newton.
Sir Isaac Newton
English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian,
and author who is widely recognized as one of the most
influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the
scientific revolution.
Mathematics is the study of
pattern and structure.
Mathematics is fundamental to the physical and
biological sciences, engineering and information
technology, to economics and increasingly to the
social sciences.
Mathematics in our World
Mathematics in our World
Looking at simple things deeply, finding
a pattern, and using the pattern to gain
new insights provides great value.
Technological World
• describes a world that is
based in science and applied
to everyday life to solve
problems.
• Technology is taking over our world, we live in
an age where most, if not all of us use
technological devices all day, everyday.

• From mobile phones, to iPads, to laptops and

TVs, we’re constantly using technology.
•
• There are even forms of technology that we
use during our sleep, fitness watches that track
our sleep and the likes.
The Printing Press
• preservation of words.
• transform cultures
• its development in 15th
Century is regarded as
the beginning of a true
revolution.
• allowed words and
scientific ideas to
establish a view of
nature anchored in
scholarly works and
studies.
Johannes Gutenberg
• a German
blacksmith,
goldsmith,
inventor, printer,
and publisher
who introduced
printing to
Europe with the
printing press.
Information Age
• began around the 1970s and is still going on
today. It is also known as the Computer Age,
Digital Age, or New Media Age. This era
brought about a time period in which people
could access information and knowledge easily.
• a historic period in the 21st century
characterized by the rapid shift from traditional
industry that the Industrial Revolution brought
through industrialization, to an economy based
on information technology.
The World Wide Web
www
• (WWW) is combination of all resources and
users on the Internet that are using the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). A
broader definition comes from the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C): "The World
Wide Web is the universe of network-
accessible information, an embodiment of
human knowledge.“
• A way of addressing data processing and
information sharing needs among scientists
for the European Organization for Nuclear
Research.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
• English engineer and
computer scientist, best
known as the inventor of
the World Wide Web.
Assignment
• Social media also poses certain
risks especially in the dissemination
of false information. As a student,
how will you use social media to
ensure that you do not propagate
inaccurate and unreliable
information?
Information Age
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.
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• DIGITAL AGE
• NEW MEDIA AGE
• 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.
Furthermore, the primary factors driving
this new age forward are convenience and
user-friendliness which, in turn, will create
user dependence.

(James R. Messenger, Theory of Information Age,

1982)
 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 want or need
to know."

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 Truths of the
Information Age
1. Information must compete

2. Newer is equated with truer

3. Selection is a viewpoint

4. The media sells what the culture buys

5. The early word gets the perm

6. You are what you eat and so is your brain

7. Anything in great demand will be counterfeited.

[Link] are seen as controversial
[Link] information walks ever on

[Link] presence creates the story

11. The medium selects the message

[Link] whole truth is a pursuit

 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
2. Desktop Computer

• PC that is not designed for portability

• Workstation: desktop computer that has a
more powerful processor, additional
memory, and enhanced capabilities for
performing special groups of tasks.
3. Laptops
• Portable computers that integrate the
essentials of a desktop computer in a
battery- operated package
4. 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
 5. Server
• Computer that has been improved to provide
network services to other computers.
• Usually boast powerful processors, tons of
memory,
and large hard drives.
 6. Mainframes
• Huge computer systems that can fill an
entire room.
• Used by large firms that process
millions of transactions every day
 7. Wearable computers
• Materials that are usually integrated into cell
phones, 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 the 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?
 Questions for Reflection
1. Which developments in the information age
brought significant changes in the way you live
your life today?
2. How did the transmission of information evolve
from the ancient times up to the present?
3. Social media is a technology which facilitates
the sharing of information, ideas, and other
content in different parts of the globe. If social
media was deactivated for a month in the
country, what could possibly happen?
4. Social media also poses certain risks especially
in the dissemination of false information. As a
student, how will you use social media to ensure
that you do not propagate inaccurate and
unreliable information?
Thank You.