INFORMATION AGE Flashcards

1
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The 21st Century Society

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Highly Modernized
Automated
Data-driven
Technologically Advanced

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2
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is knowledge communicated or obtained concerning a specific fact or circumstance.

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Information

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3
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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

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Information Age

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4
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Information Age (began in

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the last quarter of the 20th Century

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5
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Information Age is also called the

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Digital Age and the New Media Age

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6
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Information became ___________ through publications and through the management of information by computers and computer networks.

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effortlessly accessible

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7
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Proposed the Theory of Information Age (1982)

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James R. Messenger

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8
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How was information relayed to others before the invention of the printing press?

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Books; word-of-mouth channels

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9
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were written and produced by hand.

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Books

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10
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Books were made in surfaces of

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clay, wax, and papyrus

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11
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The hand-produced books were restricted only to those people who could

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afford to buy these materials.

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12
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Information was only relayed to others through

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word-of-mouth channels

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13
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invented the printing press around 1440 to improve the manual, tedious, and slow printing methods.

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Johannes Gutenberg

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14
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is a device that applies pressure to an inked surface lying on a print medium, such as cloth or paper, to transfer ink.

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Printing press

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15
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The implication of the Gutenberg Revolution to the Society

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It marked the beginning of the fast and easy way of disseminating information in print that permanently reformed the structure of society.

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16
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In 1936, _________ , an English mathematician, worked at the British top-secret Government Code and Decipher School, whose goal was to break the Enigma code.

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Alan Turing

17
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A __________________- was once used by the crews of German U-boats in World War II to send coded messages.

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four-rotor Enigma machine

18
Q

Turing, working on the side of the Allies, invented

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Bombe

19
Q

an electromechanical machine that enabled the British to decipher encrypted messages from the German Enigma Machine.

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Bombe

20
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This contribution of Turing, along with other cryptologists, shortened the war by _____ years (Munro, 2012)

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two

21
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Alan Turing presented a theoretical machine called ____________ that can solve any problem with simple instructions encoded on a paper tape.

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“Turing Machine”

22
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This became the foundation of computer science and the invention of the machine called the

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computer

23
Q

The 1970’s was regarded as the

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the dawn of computer age

24
Q

The computer was invented by ________________, an English mechanical engineer and considered the “Father of Computers”

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Charles Babbage

25
Q

The computer was designed for

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mathematical calculations and simple decision-making capabilities.

26
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1n 1976, ______________, co-founder of Apple Inc., developed the computer that made him famous: the Apple I

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Steve Wozniak

27
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Wozniak’s friend, suggested to sell the Apple I as a fully assembled printed circuit board

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Steve Jobs

28
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From 1973 onward, ________________ were introduced.

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social media platforms

29
Q

They enable information exchange at its most efficient level, and immensely influence the lives of the people.

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The Social Media Platforms

30
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Nerworking Sites for STUDENTS

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Advantages
- Technological literacy
- Bringing people together
- Attracts attention
- Breadth of Knowledge
- Opportunity to widen business

Disadvantages
- distraction
- health problems
- relationship problems
- illegal crime, virus attacks
- negative effects on worker productivity

31
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Social Media Timeline

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1997 - Six Degrees, launches
2001 - Sis Degrees, shuts down
2002 - Friendster/LinkedIn/MySpace, launches
2006 - Twitter is launched
2007 - MySpace became the most visited site in the world
2008 - Facebook moves past MySpace
2010 - Instagram hits market
2011 - Snapchat launches
2015 - Friendster services are suspended
2017 - Tiktok launches
2018 - Musical.ly shuts down, migrates users to Tiktok
2019 - Google+ shuts down
2020 - Clubhouse launches
2022 - There are 4.7 billion worldwide social media users

32
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Use of Social Platforms as Sources of News

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44% - Facebook
29% - Youtube
23% - WhatsApp
15% - Instagram
13% - Twitter
12% - FB Messenger
6% - Telegram
4% - Tiktok
4% - LinkedIn
2% - Snapchat

33
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Allies

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US, Canada, Britain, France, Australia, USSR

34
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Axis

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Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria

35
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how many permutations?

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10^114