Information Age

1945

Fremont Rider described the miniaturized microform

analog photographs, which could be duplicated on-demand for

library patrons and other institutions.

1965

Moore’s law was formulated. It is an observation that the

number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about

every two years.

Early 1980

production of the smaller and less expensive

personal computers allowed for direct access to information.

1995

Nicholas Negroponte published his book, Being Digital,

the similarities and differences between products made of atoms

and bits.

Primary Information Age

newspaper, radio, television

Secondary Information Age

Internet, satellite television and

mobile phones

Tertiary Information Age

emerged by media of the Primary

Information Age interconnected with media of the Secondary

Information Age.

Pre-Industrial Age

;time before there were machines and tools to help them perform

the tasks.

Industrial Age

;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 power-

driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and

by the concentration of industry in large establishments;

Electronic Age

began when electronic equipment and large technologies,

including computers came into use.

Transistor

led to the creation of other media tool.

Enigma machine

piece of spook hardware used as a way of

deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two.

Transistor radio

became the most popular electronic

communication and device in history.

EDSAC

first stored program electronic computer.

ENIAC

first electronic general purpose digital computer.

UNIVAC

line of electronic

digital stored- program computers.

IBM

first mass produced computer with floating-point arithmetic

hardware.

Hewlett Packard 9100A

early computer or programmable

calculator

Floppy disk

removal magnetic storage medium.

Walkman

originally used for portable audio cassette players

Information Age

People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of

personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology.

Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now

living in the information age

YouTube

created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.

Google

based on multinational technology company that specializes in

internet-related services and products,

include software, hardware, online advertising, a search engine and

cloud computing

Microsoft Corporation

develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer

software, consumer electronics, personal computers and related

services.