INFORMATION AGE Flashcards
The 21st Century Society
Highly Modernized
Automated
Data-driven
Technologically Advanced
is knowledge communicated or obtained concerning a specific fact or circumstance.
Information
We no longer kept information to ourselves; instead, we share them and manage them in different means. Because of the abundance of information, it was difficult to collect and manage them starting in the 1960s and 1970s. It marked the dawn of the
Information Age
Information Age (began in
the last quarter of the 20th Century
Information Age is also called the
Digital Age and the New Media Age
Information became ___________ through publications and through the management of information by computers and computer networks.
effortlessly accessible
Proposed the Theory of Information Age (1982)
James R. Messenger
How was information relayed to others before the invention of the printing press?
Books; word-of-mouth channels
were written and produced by hand.
Books
Books were made in surfaces of
clay, wax, and papyrus
The hand-produced books were restricted only to those people who could
afford to buy these materials.
Information was only relayed to others through
word-of-mouth channels
invented the printing press around 1440 to improve the manual, tedious, and slow printing methods.
Johannes Gutenberg
is a device that applies pressure to an inked surface lying on a print medium, such as cloth or paper, to transfer ink.
Printing press
The implication of the Gutenberg Revolution to the Society
It marked the beginning of the fast and easy way of disseminating information in print that permanently reformed the structure of society.
In 1936, _________ , an English mathematician, worked at the British top-secret Government Code and Decipher School, whose goal was to break the Enigma code.
Alan Turing
A __________________- was once used by the crews of German U-boats in World War II to send coded messages.
four-rotor Enigma machine
Turing, working on the side of the Allies, invented
Bombe
an electromechanical machine that enabled the British to decipher encrypted messages from the German Enigma Machine.
Bombe
This contribution of Turing, along with other cryptologists, shortened the war by _____ years (Munro, 2012)
two
Alan Turing presented a theoretical machine called ____________ that can solve any problem with simple instructions encoded on a paper tape.
“Turing Machine”
This became the foundation of computer science and the invention of the machine called the
computer
The 1970’s was regarded as the
the dawn of computer age
The computer was invented by ________________, an English mechanical engineer and considered the “Father of Computers”
Charles Babbage
