LESSON 9 Flashcards
Father of the Information Age,
writer, filmmaker
James R. Messenger
what theory did james messenger conceived?
theory of information age
he is an american architect and graphic designer, information anxiety
richard saul wurman
“produced by the ever-widening
gap between what we understand
and what we think we should
understand
information anxiety
It is the black hole between data and knowledge
and what happens when
information doesn’t tell us what we
want or need to know.”
information anxiety
There
is a need for information to stand
out and be recognized in the
increasing clutter
information must compete
We
forgot the truth that any fact or
value can endure
newer equates to be truer
Choose
multiple sources for your
information if you want to receive a
more balanced view of reality
selection is a viewpoint
any small, relatively
inexpensive computer
designed for an individual
user
personal computer
A computer of a size
designed to be used on a
desk or table, set up in a
permanent spot
desktop computer
also known as notebooks,
are portable computers that
you can take with you and
use in different
environments
laptops
A palmtop computer that
functions as a personal
organizer and provides
email and Internet access.
personal digital assistant
a computer designed to
process requests and
deliver data to another
computer over the internet
or a local network
server
A data processing system
employed mainly in large
organizations for various
applications
mainframe
American mathematician who was
considered as the “Father of
Information Theory
claude elwood shannon
worldwide system of
interconnected networks that
facilitate data transmission among
innumerable computers
world wide web
The internet was used mainly by
scientists to communicate with
other scientists
one early problem face of the internet was
speed
Directors of a Stanford Research
Project, built a search engine that
listed results to reflect page
popularity.
sergey brin and larry page
is the world’s most popular
search engine, accepting more than 200
million queries daily
became a pastime in
and of itself
surfing the net
