THE INFORMATION
AGE
Week 9
Science Technology & Society
Finals
EARLY DEVELOPMENTS OF
INFORMATION AGE
1945 1965
Fremont Rider described the Moore’s law was formulated. It
miniaturized microform analog is an observation that the
photographs, which could be number of transistors in a
duplicated on demand for dense integrated circuit
library patrons and other doubles about every two
institutions. years.
EARLY DEVELOPMENTS OF
INFORMATION AGE
Early 1980s 1995
Production of the smaller and Nicholas Negroponte published
less expensive personal his book, “Being Digital”, which
computers allowed for direct talked about the similarities and
differences between products
access to information.
made of atoms and bits
TYPES OF INFORMATION AGE
PRIMARY INFORMATION SECONDARY
AGE INFORMATION AGE
BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, SATELLITE,
RADIOS, TELEVISIONS SMART PHONES
TERTIARY INFORMATION AGE
EMERGED FROM THE INTEGRATION
OF PRIMARY INFORMATION AGE AND
SECONDARY INFORMATION AGE (E.G.
KINDLE APP/PRODUCT = BEING ABLE
TO READ BOOKS THROUGH TABLETS
OR SMART PHONES, A COMBINATION
OF PREVIOUS TWO AGES
PRE-INDUSTRIAL
AGE
About 2.5 million years before writing was developed,
technology began with the earliest hominids who
used stone tools, which they may have used to start
fires, hunt, and bury their dead.
• Communications were limited between
communities.
• People used traditional paper and writing
materials, signs or symbols to communicate with
each other.
PRE-INDUSTRIAL
AGE
For example:
• Egyptians used papyrus scrolls.
• Sumerian used clay tablets,
• Pre-historic men used hand stencils and simple
geometric shapes to create art on the walls of
caves
• Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
during Renaissance period.
INDUSTRIAL
AGE
A period of history that encompasses the
changes in economic and social organization
that began around 1760 in Great Britain and
later in other countries, characterized chiefly
by the replacement of hand tools with the
power-driven machines such as the Jacquard
loom and the steam engine, and by the
concentration of industry in large
establishments.
COMMUNICATION DURING
THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
Samuel Morse: Invented Alexander Graham Bell:
telegraph and morse code, which Patented the telephone, an electric
became the standard for tool transmitting analogue speech
international communication. along wires.
COMMUNICATION DURING
THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
Thomas Edison: Invented the Heinrich Hertz: Identified and
phonograph, a device for the studied radio waves in 1886.
mechanical recording and
reproduction of sound.
COMMUNICATION DURING
THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
Guiglielmo Marconi: Developed Philo Farnsworth: Invented the
the first practical radio transmitters first fully electronic television.
and receivers
ELECTRONI
C AGE
Began when electronic equipment and
large technologies, including computers
came into use. People harnessed the
power of transistors that led to the
transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the
early computers
TRANSISTOR
led to the creation of other media tool.
• Transistor Radio: Became the most
popular electronic communication device in
its time
EDSAC
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
• Considered to be the first stored-program
electronic computer
ENIAC
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
• Considered to be the first electronic general
purpose digital computer
UNIVAC
Universal Automatic Computer
• Considered to be the first line of electronic digital
universal stored-program computers
IBM
First institution to mass-produce computers with
floating-point arithmetic hardware.
HEWLETT PACKARD
An early prototype of a programmable calculator
9100A
FLOPPY DISKS
An early type of removable magnetic storage
medium shaped like a CD
WALKMAN
First digital portable audio cassette player
INFORMATION
AGE
An era where people advance the use of
microelectronics with personal computers, mobile
devices, and wearable technology. Voices, images,
sounds, and data are now digitalized and is easily
accessible through the internet.
INFORMATION AGE
Facebook: Founded by Mark Zuckerberg
YouTube: Created by Chad
and his fellow roommates; a popular global
Hurley, Steve Chen, and social networking site that is now known as
Meta – an integration of other social
Jawed Karim; an online
networking site such as Instagram,
video-sharing website Messenger, Facebook Watch, and
Facebook Business Suite.
INFORMATION AGE
TikTok: Founded ByteDance macOS: Originally Mac OS X, is an
operating system developed and
that developed the video
marketed by Apple (founded by
sharing platform “Douyin”
Steve Jobs) since 2001
(internationally known as
• Primary operating system of
TikTok.) Apple’s Mac computers.
INFORMATION AGE
ChatGPT: A generative artificial intelligence
chatbot developed by OpenAI. Based on GPT-4o
large language model (that directly learns from its
users through algorithm and open data collected
through the internet). It generates human-like
conversation responses, and enables users to
refine and steer a conversation towards a desired
length, format, style, level of detail, and language.
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