THE INFORMATION AGE
(GUTENBERG TO
SOCIAL MEDIA)
Presentation By GROUP 1
LEARNING OUTCOMES
AT THE END OF THE LESSON, THE STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE
TO:
1. Explain the importance of the social media sites to modern
day living
2. Explain the importance of information for communication
process
3. Be familiar with the important key element in the
communication process
INFORMATION
A word is a group of sounds that designates an idea. Words
are distinct from other vocal utterances because of their
importance. Despite being composed of sounds, words
convey information that is more significant. They send out a
signal. As a result of the "information" they convey, the words
are "informed" (Chaisson, 2006; Ben-Naim, 2015). When
spoken, words carry the speaker's intended meaning for the
listener. To put it simply, they convey meaning.
A famous German who was
revolutionized the information
age with the invention of
printing press in the
fifteenth century.
JOHANNES
GUTENBURG
Printing Press
It pushes paper against inked
movable type materials to
transfer text and images from
the type onto the paper.
THE INFORMATION AGE
1. Pre-Gutenberg World
2. The Gutenberg Revolution
3. Post-Gutenburg World
ROLE OF LANGUAGE
"“A language is an exact reflection of the character and
growth of its speakers.” -Cesar Chavez
The capacity to name and categorize items discovered in
nature was regarded as a first step in knowledge in the
human effort to comprehend the natural world. As a result,
the scientific pursuit of knowledge early on recognized the
value of language and the capacity it provided to
understand nature. The Greeks saw language as a marvel
to be admired. Words have influence.
MATHEMATICS AS THE
LANGUAGE OF NATURE
Today's technology is a byproduct of science. People were able
to employ technology to manage nature because the scientific
approach revealed how nature functions. A more true
statement would be that technology can be created that
takes use of the laws and language of nature now that humans
have discovered them. Of course, this language is
mathematics, which was greatly contributed to by Isaac
Newton. Because mathematics is the language that nature
uses and because the human brain can partially understand
this language, nature can be understood (Wigner, 1960).
Unfortunately, people don't always recognize this fact.
GOLDEN RATIO
GOLDEN RATIO
GOLDEN RATIO
FRACTALS
SYMMETRY
TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
We generally have this question as to what does ‘being human’
mean to us, especially the younger generation. There may be
many definitions to it, but it would be fair to say that it
somewhat describes the ability to communicate and make
decisions precisely using words, symbols, body gestures, and
facial expressions. It is no wonder that technology is
transforming our lives to a great extent and we are
completely depending on it. With the enhancement of global
communication, modernization of processes, real-time
transmission of data, and the onset of Artificial intelligence,
society has been shifting towards digitization.
Technologies are becoming increasingly complicated and
increasingly interconnected. Cars, airplanes, medical devices,
financial transactions, and electricity systems all rely on more
computer software than they ever have before, making them
seem both harder to understand and, in some cases, harder to
control. Government and corporate surveillance of individuals
and information processing relies largely on digital
technologies and artificial intelligence, and therefore involves
less human-to-human contact than ever before and more
opportunities for biases to be embedded and codified in our
technological systems in ways we may not even be able to
identify or recognize.
The functions of machines, tools, and AI maybe that of
analytics, remote sensing, monitoring, and
synthesizing data, however, they can never replace
the vital function of humans, which is to ask the
questions, frame the hypotheses, and consider biases.
Humans in the coming years need to nurture both
aspects, the first, possessing critical thinking, data,
and technological literacy, and second, possessing
empathy, communication, and collaboration.
THE PRINTING PRESS AND
BEYOND
The subsequent centuries of growth in the West would
demonstrate the potency of the eidos, or concept. The
preservation of earlier people's words was inspired by the ancient
obsession with language at a period when the West was
weakening as a result of internal strife and disputes. The value of
the written word—and our need to be informed as humans—led to
the hand-copying of thoughts during this dark time. The printing
press, a laborious process, gave rise to the technology that would
change cultures.
A true revolution may have begun with the invention of the
.
printing press, which can be dated to the 15th century. The
ancient Greek notion that information should be made
accessible through technology has been
THE WORLD WIDE WEB
The technological tour de force of the 20th century, the World
Wide Web via the internet, is a more recent example of
technology feeding upon itself. It was developed by Sir Tim
Berners-Lee to meet the information exchange and data
processing demands of scientists at the European Organization
for Nuclear Research (CERN). Every second, the atom smasher
at CERN generates enormous amounts of scientific data.
Therefore, it was necessary for better data analysts to
collaborate and work on the obtained data. While the telegraph
and telephone had made it possible to transmit information
across physical distances, processing the atom smasher's vast
amounts of scientific data required a new medium
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