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also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age
Information Age
historic period beginning in the late 20th century and characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization to an economy primarily based upon information technology.
Information Age
can be associated with the development of transistor technology which revolutionized modern technology and became the fundamental building block of digital electronics in the information age.
Information Age
According to them, the Information Age is formed by capitalizing on computer microminiaturization advances.
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According to the United Nations Public Administration Network, this is formed by capitalizing on computer microminiaturization advances.
Information Age
modern age regarded as a time in which information has become a commodity that is quickly and widely disseminated and easily available especially through the use of computer technology (Merriam-Webster).
Information Age
The information industry is built on a certain quantity of information flow.
True
Information must compete.
True
The early word gets the perm.
True
The frame does not makes the painting.
False
Selection is a viewpoint.
True
Provenance doesn’t Provides Probability.
False
The whole truth is a pursuit.
True
Yours is not to reason why. Yours is to buy and buy.
True
Media presence can not create a story.
False
The sender selects the message.
False
To accuse is to convict, and possibility is proof.
True
Undead information walks ever on.
True
Anything in great demand will be not counterfeited.
False
Newer is equated with truer.
True
The media sell what the culture doesn’t buys.
False
You are what you act and so is your brain.
False
All ideas are seen as controversial.
True
It is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
Genetically Modified Organism
GMOs are source of medicines, genetically modified foods, are widely used in scientific research & to produce other goods.
Genetically Modified Organism
The first genetically modified mouse was produced in 1981, the first plant was produced in 1983, the first GM human (modified Mt DNA) was born on July 21, 1997.
Genetically Modified Organism
collection of methods that allows correction of a gene defect that has been diagnosed in a child/embryo.
Gene Therapy
plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering techniques.
Genetically Modified Crops
are developed – and marketed – because there is some perceived advantage either to the producer or consumer of these foods. This is meant to translate into a product with a lower price, greater benefit (in terms of durability or nutritional value) or both.
Genetically Modified Food
Many scientific data indicate that animals fed by GM crops have been harmed. E.g. rats exposed to GM potatoes and soya had abnormal young sperm.
Health Risks: Animals
Many companies do not accept the direct link between GMF consumption & human health problems
Health Risks: Human
Many villagers & cotton handlers have developed skin allergies
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Genes may escape & find their way into other members of species or other species. Imagine the trouble if herbicide resistant genes found their way into weeds.
Environmental Risk
GM crops could compete or breed with wild species threatening biodiversity.
Environmental Risk
Monogenetic crops may not react sufficiently to environmental stresses, posing danger of reenactment of Ireland’s potato famine.
Environmental Risk
Unintended harm to other species.
Environmental Risk
Risk of patent enforcement which may oblige farmers may to depend on giant engineering companies such as Monsanto for strains when their crops are pollinated.
Economical Issue
Patenting new plant varieties will raise the price of seeds so high that small farmers will not be able to afford seeds for GM crops, thus widening the gap between the wealthy and poor.
Economical Issue
Genetic modification of organisms can have unpredictable results when such organisms are introduced into the ecosystem.
GMO and Ethical Issues
the term used to refer to the use of bio-resources by multinational companies and other organizations without proper authorization from the countries and people concerned without compensatory payment.
Biopiracy
Nanomaterials are the particles (crystalline or amorphous) of Organic or Inorganic materials having sizes in the range of 1-100 nm.
Nanotechnology
came from the Greek word “dwarf ” means ‘billionth’
nano
billionth of a meter.
nanometer
can cause serious illness or damage to human body.
Nano particles
could cause infection of lungs
Carbon Nanotubes
An alternative energy method such as hybrid automobiles will decrease the price by novel developments in nanotechnology.
Cost saving on materials.
Large sample testing will be done on a smaller scale and simultaneously use of raw materials will become more efficiency. Nanoscale chemical reagents (or catalysts) increase the reaction rate and other efficiency of chemical reactions.
Less waste on raw materials.
The use of graphene into a coating material resulting in the need for only one layer, which does not require a multifunctional film coating. Two applications for a graphene based coating are to apply it to a blade used in wind turbines or on the body of an airplane. It saves the weight increasing efficiency.
Energy consumption.
Utilizing advanced nanotechnology, a detector was made to detect a nuclear leak faster and more accurate at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Which is one of the best radiation detector in Washington and can sense the faintest amount of radiation.
Environmental monitoring and protection.
Developing ultra-small probes on planetary surfaces for agricultural applications and control of soil, air, and water contamination.
Biological applications.
This includes the medical diagnostic and treatments.
Biomedical applications.
method that may treat or cure genetic-related human illnesses.
Gene therapy
somatic gene therapy which involves the manipulation of genes in cells that will be helpful to the patient but not inherited to the next generation.
somatic gene therapy
involves the genetic modification of germ cells or the origin cells that will pass the change to the next generation.
germline gene therapy
slow increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere because an increased amount of the energy (heat) striking the earth from the sun is being trapped in the atmosphere and not radiated out into space.
Global warming
tiny particles of carbon released as a result of the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels and biomass.
black carbon
refers to significant, long-term changes in the global climate.
Climate change
carbon dioxide is produced any time something is burned.
carbon dioxide
a byproduct of fertilizer production and use, other industrial processes and the combustion of certain materials.
Nitrous oxide in parean (laughing gas), NO/N2O or simply NOx
is used for specialized medical procedures, but primarily in what are called dielectric materials, especially dielectric
liquids.
Sulphur hexafluoride or SF6
