CHAPTER 7

Information Age
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• This section traces the development of the information age

and discusses its impact on society.

• It tackles the various ways the information age and social

media have influence society and human lives.
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• Information plays an important role in understanding the
truth and reality.

• If there are no information available, our lives might be

enigmatic and chaotic.

• The period starting in the last quarter of the 20th century

when information became effortlessly accessible through
publication and through the management of information by
computers and computer networks.
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• It is a true new age based upon the interconnection of

computers via telecommunications, with these systems
operating on both real-time and as needed basis- Theory of
Information Age (Messenger, 1982).
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Bioinformatics

-is the application of information technology to store, organize

and analyze vast amount of biological data which is available in

the form sequences and structures of proteins – the building

blocks of organisms and nucleic acids- the information carrier

(Madan, n.d.) Such was established because of the need to

create databases of biological sequences.
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Bioinformatics

For example, it is used to identify correlations between gene

sequences and diseases, to predict protein structures from

amino acid sequences, to aid in the design of novel drugs, and

to tailor treatments to individual patients based on their DNA

sequences (pharmacogenomics).
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GUTENBERG TO SOCIAL MEDIA
Johannes Gutenberg
• German goldsmith

• He invented the printing press around 1440

• Printing Press is a device that applies pressure to an inked

surface lying on a print medium, such as cloth or paper, to

transfer ink.

• This invention was a result of finding a way to improve the

manual, tedious, and slow printing methods.
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GUTENBERG TO SOCIAL MEDIA

Johannes Gutenberg
• The printing press made the mass production of books

possible which made books accessible not only in the upper

class.

• The development of a fast and easy way of disseminating

information on print permanently reformed the structure of

society.
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GUTENBERG TO SOCIAL MEDIA

Johannes Gutenberg
• The beginnings of mass communication can be traced back to

the invention of the printing press.

• Political and religious authorities who took pride in being

learned and threatened by the sudden rise of literacy among

people.
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• Back then, people who compiled actuarial tables and did

engineering calculations served as “computers”

• During World War II the Allies, (US, Canada, Britain, France,

USSR, Australia, etc.), countries that opposed the Axis powers

(Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary Romania, and Bulgaria), were

challenge with the serious shortage of human computers for

military calculations.
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• United States created

- purpose electromechanical computer that was 50 feet long

and capable of doing calculations in seconds that usually

took people hours.

- Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK

series of computers at Harvard University beginning in

1944. (Bellis, 2020)
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an enciphering machine that the German armed forces

used to securely send messages.
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Alan Turing (cryptologists)

• English mathematician
• He was hired in 1936 by the British top-secret

at Bletchley
Park to break the Enigma code. His code-breaking

methods became an industrial process having

12,000 people working 24/7.
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Alan Turing

• Bombe

• An electromechanical machine that enabled the British to

decipher encrypted messages of the German Enigma machine.

• Shortened the war by two years (Munro,2012).

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Alan Turing

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Alan Turing

• In his paper ,
( publish in 1937)

• Presented a theoretical machine called

-can solve any problem from simple instructions encoded
on a paper tape.
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Alan Turing

• Also demonstrated the simulation of Turing machine to

construct a single

• Foundation of Computer Science and the invention of a

machine later called a Computer,

-Can solve any problem by performing any task from

written program (DeHaan,2012).
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1970s

• Prescribed as the generation with “electronic brains”.

• First to be introduced to personal computers (PCs).

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• an early computer hobbyist group, gathered regularly to trade

parts of computer and hardware and talked about how to
make computers more accessible to everyone.

• Many members of the club ended up being high-profile

entrepreneurs,
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Steve Wozniak (1976)

• Co-founder of Apple Inc., developed the computer that made him famous:

The .

• Designed the operating system, hardware, and circuit board of the

computer all by himself.

Steve Jobs

• Wozniak’s friend

• Suggested to sell the Apple I

• Founders of Apple Inc

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From 1973 onward, social media platforms were

introduced from variation of multi-user chat rooms;

instant-messaging applications; bulletin-board forum systems;

Blogging platforms and live-streaming platforms etc.

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Progressed from the invention of the printing press to the

development of numerous social media platforms, has immensely

influenced the lives of the people. The impact of these innovations

can be advantageous or disadvantageous depending on the use

of these technologies.
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• Technology is increasingly playing a crucial role in the success

of organizations particularly in school in this information age.

• Computer and the information they process and store have

transformed every aspect of the society

• IT has become a part of our everyday live

• There have been tremendous changes in the ways people live

work and play over the past three decades
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• IT is compose of computer, network, mobile and wireless

devices, satellite communications, robotics, videotext, cable

television, electronic mail (e-mail), electronic gadget and

automated office equipment.

• Technological innovation and entrepreneurship have been the

key players in the changes that we experience.
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• Computers are becoming increasingly affordable and they

continue to be more powerful as information processing tools.

EFFECT/IMPACT (Advantages of IT)

• Globalization – enabled countries to share ideas and information with

each other.

• Communication – made communication cheaper, quicker and more

efficient.

• Cost Effectiveness – computerization and business process and

increased productivity.

• Creation of New Jobs – computer programmer, system analysts,

hardware and software developer and web designer.

EFFECT/IMPACT (Changes in aspects of People Lives)

1. Emergence of online companies

2. Creation of economically and stimulating businesses

3. More mature and educated people

4. Reshaping governments with new technologies

5. Fast and easy way of disseminating news and information in print.

6. Access to information is now available not only to the upper class.