UNIT 2: MIL EVOLUTION

Question 1

Evolution of Media

Answer 1

Pre-industrial Age
Industrial Age
Electronic Age
New/Information Age

Question 2

People discovered fire, developed
paper from plants and forged
weapons and tools with stone
bronze, copper and iron.

Answer 2

Pre-Industrial Age(1700)

Question 3

Pre-Industrial Age is also known as

Answer 3

Prehistoric Age

Question 4

It includes Cave Painting (35,000 BC), Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia(2400 BC), Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC), Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC), Dibao in China (2nd Century), Codex in Mayan region (5th Century), and Printing press using wood blocks (220 AD)

Answer 4

Pre-Industrial Age(1700)

Question 5

People used the power of steam,
developed machine tools, established iron production and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press).

Answer 5

Industrial Age(1700s-1930s)

Question 6

Responsible for the widespread dissemination of information

Answer 6

Industrial Age(1700s-1930s)

Question 7

The most notable invention in Industrial Age is

Answer 7

Printing press

Question 8

It includes Printing Press for mass production (1900), Newspaper – The London Gazette (1740), Typewriter (1800) *Telephone (1876), Motion picture photography/projection (1890), Commercial motion pictures (1913), Motion picture with sound (1913), Telegraph *Punch cards

Answer 8

Industrial Age(1700s-1930s)

Question 9

People harnessed the power of transistors
that led to the transistor radio,
electronic circuits and the early
computers. In this age, long distance
communication became more
efficient.

Answer 9

Electronic Age(1930s-1980s)

Question 10

The invention of the _____
ushered in the electronic age.

Answer 10

Transistor

Question 11

It includes Transistor Radio, Television (1941), Large electronic computers, Mainframe Computers – i.e. IBM 704 (1960), OHP, LCD projectors

Answer 11

Electronic Age(1930s-1980s)

Question 12

Also known as “The birth of Internet”
People advanced the use of
microelectronics with the invention of personal
computers, mobile devices and wearable technology.
most notable for the use of social media websites

Answer 12

New/Information Age(1900s-2000s)

Question 13

It paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network

Answer 13

Internet

Question 14

It includes Web browsers: Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer(1995), Blogs: Blogspot (1999), Wordpress (2003), Social Networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), FB (2004) Instagram, Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007), Video: YouTube (2005), Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, Video chat: Skype (2003), Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995), Portable computer- laptops (1980), netbooks
(2008), tablets (1993), Smart phones *Wearable technology, Cloud and Big Data

Answer 14

New/Information Age(1900s-2000s)