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information age

this is the age of computer age, digital age, new media age, internet age

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information age

this is a historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the industrial revollution brought through industrialization

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1945

which year is this:

fremond rider described the miniaturized microform analog photographs, which could be duplicated on-demand for library patrons and o t her institutions

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fremont rider

who described the miniaturized microform analog photographs

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1965

what was the year when moore’s law was formulated

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moore’s law

it is an observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years

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early 1980s

when did the production of the smaller and less expensive personal computers allowed for direct access to information

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1995

when did nicholas negroponte published his book called “Being Digital”

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nicholas negroponte

he published a book called “Being Digital”, the similarities and differences between products made of atoms and bits

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primary information age

newspaper, radio, telivision. which stage of information age is this

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secondary information age

which level of information is this: internet, satellite, television, and mobile phones

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tertiary information age

which stage of information age is this: emerged by media of the primary information age interconnected with media of the second information age

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pre-industrial age

age/time before there were machines and tools to help them perform the tasks

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hominids

technology began with the earliest ____ who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, bury their dead, etc.

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pre-industrial age

in this age or time, communications were limited between communities

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pre-industrial age

in this age/time people used traditional paper and writing materials, signs or symbols to communicate with each other.

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egyptians

these people used papyrus scrolls

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sumerians

these people used clay tables

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prehistoric men

these people used hand stencils and simple geometric shapes to create art on the walls of caves

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johannes gutenberg

he invented the printing press during renaissance period

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industrial age

this is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization

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industrial age

this period began around 1760 in grate britain and later in other countries replaced hand tools with power driven machines

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samuel f.b morse

he invented the telegraph

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alexander graham bell

he patent the telephone

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telegraph

this became the standard for international communication with a modified code

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telephone

this is an electric tool trasmitting analogue speech along wires

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thomas edison

he invented the phonograph

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phonograph

this is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound

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heinrich hertz

he identified and studied radio waves in 1886

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guiglielmo marconi

he developed the first practcal radio transmitters and receivers

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philo farnswirth

he invted the first fully electronic teleivision

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electronic television

it became an important mass medium for advertising, propaganda, and entertainment

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electronic age

this period began when electronic equipment and large technologies came into use

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electronic age

which age does the invention of the transistor ushered

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enigma machine

this is a piece of spook hardware used as a way of deciphering german signals traffic during world war two

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transistor radio

this became the most popular electronic communication and device in history

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EDSAC (electronic delay storage automatic calculator)

considered to be the first stored program electronic computer

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ENIAC (electronic numerical integrator and compputer)

it is the first electronic general purpose digital computer

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UNIVAC (universal automatic computer)

this is a line of electronic digital stored-program computers

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IBM

is the first mass produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware

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hewlett packard 9100A

it is an early computerr or first programmable calculator

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floppy disk

it is a removal magnetic storage medium

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walkman

it is originally used for portable audio cassette players

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information age

this period, people advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers

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information age

we are living in this age, what it is called

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youtube

was created by chad hurley, steven chen, and jawed karim. an online video-sharing platform

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facebook inc.

it was founded by mark zuckerberg. it is a popular global social networking website

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macbook

it is a discontinued macintosh portable computer developed and sold by apple inc.

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google llc

this is based on multinational technology comany that specializes in internet-related services and products, which include software, hardware, etc.

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microsoft corporation

develops, manufactires, licenses, supports, and selss computer software and related services