Information Age Flashcards
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- Computer Age, Digital Age, New Media Age, Internet Age
- historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.
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INFORMATION AGE
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- newspaper, radio, television.
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Primary Information Age
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Early Developments of Information Age :
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- 1945
- 1965
- Early 1980
- 1995
- Primary Information Age
- Secondary Information Age
- Tertiary Information Age
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- production of the smaller and less expensive personal computers allowed for direct access to information.
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Early 1980
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- Fremont Rider described the miniaturized microform analog photographs, which could be duplicated on-demand for library patrons and other institutions.
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1945
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- Moore’s law was formulated. It is an observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.
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1965
6
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- identified and studied radio waves in 1886
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Heinrich Hertz
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- time before there were machines and tools to help them perform the tasks.
- About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, and bury their dead.
- Communications were limited between communities.
- People used traditional paper and writing materials, signs or symbols to communicate with each other. For example, Egyptians used papyrus scrolls. Sumerians used clay tablets
- Pre-historic men used hand stencils and simple geometric shapes to create art on he walls of caves
- Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press during Renaissance period
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Pre-industrial Age
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- Nicholas Negroponte published his book, Being Digital, the similarities and differences between products made of atoms and bits.
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1995
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- Internet, satellite television and mobile phones
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Secondary Information Age
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Communication during the Industrial Age
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- Samuel F.B Morse
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Thomas Edison
- Heinrich Hertz
- Guglielmo Marcon
- Philo Farnsworth
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- encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
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Industrial Age (1700-1930)
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- emerged by media of the Primary Information Age interconnected with media of the Secondary Information Age.
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Tertiary Information Age
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- first mass produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware.
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IBM
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- patent the telephone, an electric tool transmitting analogue speech along wires.
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Alexander Graham Bell
