The Information Age Flashcards
This age refers to the time where information can be widely and easily disseminated and is readily available through the use of technology such as computer. It is also known as “Computer Age, Digital Age and New Media Age”.
Information Age
This age is characterized by rapid growth in communication and information technology.
Information Age
What are the four periods of the information age?
Historical Development
- Pre-Mechanical (3000 BC to 1450 AD)
- Mechanical (1450-1840)
- Electro-mechanical (1840-1940)
- Electronic/information (1940 –present)
Historical Development
What period or age is this?
It is when humans first started communicating, language together with simple pictures known as petroglyphs.
Number system was also developed during this time that led to the invention of the first calculator – the Abacus.
Historical Development
Pre-Mechanical (3000 BC to 1450 AD)
Historical Development
What period or age is this?
This period showed the connection of the ancient technology to the current technology that we have.
Pascaline which was first known as arithmetic machine is capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing numbers. It is a mechanical computer invented by Blaise Pascal.
Historical Development
Mechanical (1450-1840)
Historical Development
What period or age is this?
This period signaled the beginning of telecommunications that give birth to several revolutionary technologies such as the Morse code, telephone, radios and televisions.
Harvard Mark 1- created by IBM in 1944.
* It was the first large-scale automatic digital computer.
Historical Development
Electro-mechanical (1840-1940)
Historical Development
What period or age is this?
In this period, machines already used electronic switches in the form of vacuum tubes.
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
* was the first electronic general-purpose computer
Historical Development
Electronic/information (1940 –present)
Historical Development
What period or age is this?
- This age became well-known because of the emergence of electronic computers that is marked by the transformation of the traditional industry into an information digitalization-based economy.
- The internet which is identical to modern IT, was developed during the 1970s.
- The primary software applications of the internet were e-mail and computer-file transfer.
Information Age and the Internet
Information Age
Information Age and the Internet
What invention is this?
- also known as the web, WWW or W3
- invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and opened to the public in 1991
- a means to access the interlinked information stored in the globally dispersed computers connected by the Internet
Information Age and the Internet
World Wide Web
Information Age and the Internet
What invention is this?
Who created the first effective personal computer called the Apple 1?
Information Age and the Internet
Steve Jobs
Information Age and the Internet
What invention is this?
Who co-founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with Paul Allen?
Information Age and the Internet
Bill Gates
Information Age and the Internet
What invention is this?
Who is regarded as the Father of the Information Age?
Information Age and the Internet
Claude Shannon
Information Age and the Internet
Workplace
What are the 3 positive impacts of technology in the workplace?
Positive impacts of technology
- Increased efficiency
- Easy automation
- Better collaboration
Positive impacts of technology
Medical advancements
What are the 3 positive impacts of technology in the medical field?
Positive impacts of technology
- Better diagnosis and treatment
- Improved research outcomes
- Telemedicine
Positive impacts of technology
Global communication
What are the 3 positive impacts of technology in Global communication?
Positive impacts of technology
- Remote work collaboration
- More learning opportunities
- Better social connections
Positive impacts of technology
