Finalè Flashcards
Specific Issues in STS
- Information Age
- Gene Therapy vs. Stem Cell Therapy and The Role of
Genes in Heredity
3 Biodiversity and Healthy Society - The Nano World
is characterized by the rapid
shift from the traditional industry.
It begun around the 1970’s up to present.
Information Age
Information Age is also known as:
as the computer age, digital age, and
the new media age
Historical Development
Pre-mechanical
period (3000 BC-
1450 AD)
Mechanical
period
(1450-1840)
Electromechanical
era (1840-
1940)
Electronic/
Information
age (1940-
present)
What do Humans used to start communicating with
one another
Rocks
They started to write these as
substitutes for pictures to depict ideas, objects, and animals - gave rise to our modern-day ALPHABET.
Symbols
• Humans started communicating with one another in rocks.
• They started to write symbols as
substitutes for pictures to depict ideas, objects, and animals - gave rise to our modern-day alphabet.
Pre-mechanical period
The interest in automating and
speeding up numerical calculations
grew.
• The machines driven by mechanical means such as steam and
gears dominated information
processing and calculation.
Mechanical Period
A practical automatic (programmable) loom
which weave patterns into cloth, controlled by
a linked sequence of punched cards
Joseph Marie Jacquard’s loom
He contributed to the invention of a singlewire telegraph
system
Samuel Morse
Who created the Morse Code?
Samuel Morse
The beginning of telecommunication
• The telegraph was created in the early 1800s.
• Morse code was created by Samuel Morse in
1835
Electro-Mechanical Era
The beginning of telecommunication
• The telegraph was created in the early 1800s.
• Morse code was created by Samuel Morse in
1835
Electro-Mechanical Era
is a method used in telecommunication
to encode
text
characters as standardized sequences of
two different signal durations, called DOTS
AND DASHES.
Morse code
A period when you can ACCESS TO and the CONTROL OF
information is the defining
characteristic of this current era
Electronic / Information Age
Examples of the basic characteristics of the information age:
Network
Internet of things
Mobility
Knowledge and research
Long tail
Misinformation and Disinformation
Knowledge economy
Productivity
Leisure
Imagination age
Globalization
Culture change
Digital dependency
Information security
Pioneers of the Information Age
Blaise Pascal
Alexander Graham Bell
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Claude Shannon
pioneering work on calculating machines, establishing him as
one of the first two INVENTORS OF THE MECHANICAL CALCULATOR
Blaise Pascal
credited with patenting the first
practical TELEPHONE
Alexander Graham Bell
pioneer of the PERSONAL COMPUTER REVOLUTION of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow APPLE cofounder STEVE WOZNIAK
Steve Jobs
major entrepreneur of the MICROCOMPUTER REVOLUTION of the 1970s and 1980s, widely known as the co-founder of MICROSOFT, along with his late childhood friend PAUL ALLEN
Bill Gates
a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer, scientist and cryptographer known as the “FATHER OF INFORMATION THEORY“, worked on codebreaking and secure telecommunications
Claude Shannon
An electronic device with a memory that can accept process and store
data according to the programmed set of instructions and produces
vital information out of this data.
Computer
Early computers can be connected to a local or
national networks through a device called
Modem
