WEEK 9

Question 1

______ is defined as “period starting in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became effortlessly accessible through publications and through the management of information by computers and computer networks”

Answer 1

Information Age

Question 2

The Information Age is also called

Answer 2

• the Digital Age
• the New Media Age
  because it was associated with the development of computers.

Question 3

who proposed the Theory of Information Age

Answer 3

James R. Messenger

Question 4

When did James R. Messenger proposed the Theory of Information Age?

Answer 4

1982

Question 5

Sumerian writing system used pictographs to represent

Answer 5

3000 BC

Question 6

Beginnings of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

Answer 6

2900 BC

Question 7

Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing were used

Answer 7

1300 BC

Question 8

Papyrus roll was used

Answer 8

500 BC

Question 9

Chinese small seal writing was developed

Answer 9

220 BC

Question 10

Book (parchment codex)

Answer 10

100 AD

Question 11

Woodblock printing and paper was invented by the Chinese

Answer 11

105 AD

Question 12

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press using
movable metal type

Answer 12

1455

Question 13

Samuel Johnson’s dictionary standardized English spelling

Answer 13

1755

Question 14

-The Library of Congress was established
-Invention of the carbon arc lamp

Answer 14

1802

Question 15

During the 1980s, real angst set in. Richard Wurman called it _____

Answer 15

“Information Anxiety.”

Question 16

In the 1990s, information became the ______ in the business world.

Answer 16

currency

Question 17

_______ was the preferred medium of exchange

Answer 17

Information