information age

INFORMATION AGE

historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.

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.

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

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 powerdriven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments

Samuel F.B Morse

- invented the telegraph which became the standard for international communication with a modified code

Alexander Graham Bell

- patent the telephone, an electric tool transmitting analogue speech along wires.

Thomas Edison

- invented the phonograph, a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.

Heinrich Hertz

- identified and studied radio waves in 1886.

Guglielmo Marconi

- developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers

Philo Farnsworth

- invented the first fully electronic television. It became an important mass medium for advertising, propaganda and entertainment

Electronic Age

began when electronic equipment and large technologies, including computers came into use.

The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age

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 (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator)

- first stored program electronic computer

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

- first electronic general purpose digital computer.

UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer)

- 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 this age

➔YouTube

created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. It is an online video-sharing platform. allows users to view, upload, share, report, subscribe and comments on videos.

➔MacBook

discontinued Macintosh portable computer developed and sold by Apple Inc. includes a Retina display, fanless design and a shallower butterfly keyboard and a single USB-C port for power and data.

➔Google LLC

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

“Truths of the Information Age

Robert Harris

• Information must compete.

• Newer is equated with truer.

• Selection is a viewpoint.

• The media sells what the culture buys.

• The early word gets the perm.

• You are what you eat and so is your brain.

• Anything in great demand will be counterfeited.

• Ideas are seen as controversial.

• Undead information walks ever on.

• Media presence created the story.

• The medium selects the message.

• The whole truth is a pursuit

Computer

an electronic device that stores and process data

The World Wide Web

Historians often trace the origin of the Internet to Claude E. Shannon, an American mathematician

Shannon, who worked at Bell Laboratories, proposed in a paper at age 32 that information could be encoded quantitatively as sequences of ones and zeroes.

Claude E. Shannon

known as the “Father of Information Theory.”

BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

variety of all life on earth. It also pertains to the relative abundance and richness of the different traits, species, and ecosystems in a particular area or region.

Genetic Diversity

variations among the genetic resources of the organisms.

A gene is a unit of hereditary information consisting of a specific nucleotide sequence in DNA.

Species Diversity

• All different species or kinds of organisms on our planet

Ecosystem/Ecological Diversity

variety of different types of species found in a particular area. It includes terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems

Ecosystem

- unit of interaction between the biotic community and its physical environment in a given area. It is a selfcontained community of microorganisms, animals and plants that interact with each other and with their physical environment.”

Rafflesia manillana -

world’s largest flower.

Rafflesia manillana -

world’s largest flower.

Pithecophaga jefferyi (monkey-eating eagle)

largest bird

Rhyncodon typus

largest fish

Tridacna gigas (giant clam)

largest seashell

➔ Pandaka pygmea (dwarf goby)

smallest freshwater fish

Tarsius syrichta (tarsier)

- smallest primate

Tragalus nigricans

smallest hoofed mammal

➔ Tylonycteris pachpus (bamboo bat)

- smallest bat

Pisidum

tiniest shell in the world

Connus gloriamaris

most expensive shells in the world

Cervus alfredi

most endangered deer

Bubalus mindorensis (tamarau or dwarf water buffalo) -

top ten most endangered species in the world and the largest endangered anima

Environmental Pollution

Domestic agriculture and industrial wastes are poorly treated and are often discharged into the sea, and to other bodies of water, such as rivers and lakes

GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS

are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques, which is a direct manipulation of an organisms genome.

NANOTECHNOLOGY

The engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale

Nanoscience

is the study of phenomena and manipulation of materials at atomic, molecular and macromolecular scales, where properties differ significantly from those at a larger scale.