THE INFORMATION AGE

LESSON OBJECTIVES
• Define Information Age
• Discuss the history of Information Age;
and
• Understand the factors that need to be
considered in checking websites
sources
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• According to Webster’s Encyclopedic
Unabridged Dictionary, INFORMATION is
“knowledge communicated or obtained concerning a
specific fact or circumstance”
• 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
computers and computer
networks”(Vocabulary.com.n.d).
 Information Age
• The Information Age also called the Digital
Age and the new media Age because it was
associated with the development of
computers.
• James R. Messenger (Father of The Theory
Information Age in 1982), “the information
age is a true new age based upon the
interconnection of computers via
telecommunications, with these information
system operating on both a real-time and as-
needed basis.
 Timeline of the Information Age
YEAR EVENT
30000 BC Sumerian writing system used
pictographs to present words
2900 BC Beginning of Egyptian
hieroglyphic
1300 BC Tortoise shell and oracle bone
writing were used
500 BC Papyrus roll was used
200 BC Chinese small seal writing was
developed
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100 AD Book (parchment order)
105 AD Woodblock printing and paper
was invented by the Chinese
1455 Johannes Gutenberg invented
the printing press using movable
metal type
1755 Samuel Johnson’s dictionary
standardized English Spelling
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1802  The Library of Congress was established
 Invention of the Carbon arc lamp
1824 Research on persistence of vision
published
1830s  First viable design for a digital computer
 Augussta lady Byron writes the world’s first
Computer Program

1837 Invention of the telegraph in great Britain

and the United Stetes
1861 Motion pictures were projected onto a screen
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1876 Dewey decimal System was Introduced

1877 Eadweard Muybride demonstrated high-

speed photography
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
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1926 First practical sound movie
1939 Regularly scheduled television
broadcasting began in the US
1940s Beginnings of Information science as
Discipline
1945 Vannevar Bush foresaw the invention
of hypertext
1946 ENIAC computer was developed
1948 Birth of field-of-information theory
proposed by Claude E. Shannon
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1957 Planar transitor was developed by Jean Hoerni
1958 First Integrated Circuit
1960s Library of Congress developeLC 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 develop by Philips and
MCA
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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
1984 Apple Macintosh computer was
introduced
Mid 1980’s Artificial intelligence was separated from
information science
1987 Hypercard was developed by Bill Atkinson
recipe box metaphor
Evolution of Man and Information
Evolution of Man and Information

• Richard Wurman: “Information Anxiety”

• In 1990s information became the currency in
the business world.
• Information was the preferred medium of
exchange and information managers served
as information officers.
• Information Age will continue to move
forward and far greater than our minds
could imagine
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1. Information must compete.

• There is a need for information to
stand out and be recognized in the
increasing clutter.
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2. Newer is equated with truer.

• We forgot the truth that any fact or
value
3. Selection is a viewpoint.
• Choose multiple sources for your
information if you want to receive a
more balanced view or reality.
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4. The media sells what the culture
buys.
• In other words, information is driven
by cultural priorities.
5. The early word gets the perm.
• The first media channel to expose an
issue often defines the context, terms,
and attitudes surrounding it.
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6. You are what you eat and so is your

brain.
• Do not draw conclusions unless all
ideas and information are presented to
you.
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7. Anything in great Demand will
counterfeited.
The demand for incredible knowledge,
scandals, and secrets is ever-present,
hence, many events are fabricated by
tabloids, publicists, or other agents of
Information fraud.
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8. Ideas are seen as Controversial.
It is almost certainly impossible to make
any assertion that will not find some
supporters and some detractors.
9. Undead Information walks ever on.
Rumors, lies, disinformation, and
gossips never truly die down.
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10. Media presence creates the story.
People behave much differently from the
way they would if being filmed when the
media are present, especially film news or
television media.
9. The medium selects the message.
Television is mainly pictorial, partially
aural, and slightly textual, so visual stories
are emphasized: fire, chases, and disasters.
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10. The whole truth is a pursuit.

The formation that reaches us is usually
selected, verbally charged, filtered,
slanted, and important than what is
included.
 COMPUTERS
Computers are among the most important
contributions of advances in the
Information age to society.
A computer is an electronic device that
stores and processes data (information). It
runs on a program that contains the exact,
step-by-step directions to solve a problem
(Ushistory.org, 2017)
 TYPES OF COMPUTER
1. PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC)
 TYPES OF COMPUTER
2. DESKTOP COMPUTER
 TYPES OF COMPUTER
3. LAPTOPS
 TYPES OF COMPUTER
4. PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS
(PDAs)
 TYPES OF COMPUTER
5. SERVER
 TYPES OF COMPUTER
6. Mainframes
 TYPES OF COMPUTER
6. Wearable Computers
THE WORLD WIDE
WEB (INTERNET)
CLAUDE E. SHANNON
“Father of
INFORMATION
THEORY”
He published a paper
proposing that
information can be
quantitatively encoded
as a sequence of ones
and zeroes.
 WORLD WIDE WEB (INTERNET)

• INTERNET is a worldwide system of

interconnected networks that facilitate data
transmission among innumerable computers.
• It was developed during the 1970s by the
Department of Defense.
• In early days, the Internet was used mainly
by the scientists to communicate each other.
• The Internet under government control until
1984 (Rouse, 2014).
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• SPEED was the early problem faced by the

Internet users
• Companies like Intel developed faster
microprocessors so personal computers could
process the incoming signals at more rapid
rate (Ushistory.org,2017)
• Sergey brin and larry page, directors of a
Standford research project built a research
engine that listed results to reflect page
popularity...
 WORLD WIDE WEB (INTERNET)

• GOOGLE is now the world’s most popular

search engine, accepting more 200 million
queries daily.
• MAIL, OR EMAIL –forms of communication
• “SURFING THE NET” became a pastime in
and of itself
• Current Information Age- from Microsoft’s
Bill Gates to Apple’s job to Facebook’s Mark
Zuckerberg
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“CYBERBULLYING IS AN ISSUE THAT

POSES ALARM WORLDWIDE. “

“WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF THE

POSSIBLE HARM AND DAMAGE DUE
TO ABUSE OF THESE ADVANCES IN
THE INFORMATION AGE.”
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Research
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 Applications of Computers in Science and
Research
• BIOINFORMATICS is the application of
information technology to store,
organize, analyze vast amount of
biological data which is available in the
form of sequences and structures of
proteins—the building blocks of
organisms and nucleic acids-the
information carrier (Madan, n.d.)
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Research
• BIOINFORMATICS established because
of a need to create databases of
biological sequences.
• HUMAN BRAIN cannot store all genetic
sequences of organisms and this huge
amount can only be stored, analyzed,
and be used sufficiently with the use of
computers.
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Research
• SWISS-PROT formal database, protein sequences
database, initiated 1986.
• COMPUTERS & SOFTWARE tools are widely
used for generating databases and identify the
function of proteins, model the structure of
proteins,
• BLAST (used for comparing sequences)
• ANNOTATOR an interactive genome analysis tool
• GENEFINDER (tool to identify coding regions and
spice sites)
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• HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH