INFORMATION AGE Flashcards
Sumerian writing
3000 BC
Egyptian hieroglyphics
2900 BC
Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing
1300 BC
Papyrus roll
500 BC
Parchment codex
100 AD
Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press
1455
Invention of Telegraph in Great Britain and US
1837
Eniac Computer
1946
Apple Macintosh computer
1984
Separation of AI from Informationa Science
Mid 1980’s
is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia 3500 BCE (Mark, 2022).
Cuneiform
-One of the writing systems used by ancient Egyptians to represent their language (Scoville, 2015).
-Its pictorial elegance, Herodotus and other important.
-Greeks believed that Egyptian Hieroglyphs were something sacred referred as “holy writing”.
Egyptian hieroglyphics
(also known as Dragon’s Bones) were the shoulder blades of oxen or plastrons of turtles (the flat, underside of the turtle’s shell) which were used in the Shang Dynasty of China (c. 1600 1046 BCE) for divination (Mark, 2016).
Oracle Bones
-papyrus produced in Egypt was used for many purposes, but none more important than its function as a writing material.
-made from papyrus plant
-Ten to twenty sheets would be glued together to form a long sheet and rolled into a scroll, often
Papyrus Roll
is essentially an ancient book, consisting of one or more quires of sheets of papyrus or parchment folded together to form a group of leaves, or pages.
Codex
was built around the traditional screw press, a precursor to today’s drill press, with an added matrix on which individually-cast letters and symbols could be arranged to form the desired text.
Johannes Gutenberg’s Printing Press
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and
other inventors, the __________ revolutionized long distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations
Telegraph
ENIAC
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
the first large-scale
computer to run at electronic speed without being slowed by any mechanical parts.
-the result of a U.S. government-funded project during World War II to build an electronic computer that could be programmed. The project was based out of the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering.
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
was designed to provide users with a natural, intuitive and user-friendly computer interface.
Macintosh computers
is a wide-ranging branch of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Users complain the network is too slow.
Slow network
Wi-Fi signal strength may be adequate almost everywhere, but it could be weak or nonexistent in other areas.
Weak Wi-Fi signal
A network connection can suddenly break because of physical connectivity issues.
A common problem is when a network cable becomes damaged or knocked loose.
Physical connectivity issues
