INFORMATION

REVOLUTION

PRINTING
WRITING
MASS MEDIA
ENTERTAINMENT
TOOLSHED HOME
INFORMATION HIGHWAY
intro
Information revolutions occur when there is a convergence of new
information technologies fuelled by a need for social change. These
revolutions result in advance ways people store and exchange
information.
(1)writing
Cuneiform or Sumerian cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by
the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a
blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply means "wedge shaped".

(2) 2.1Ancient Chinese Wood block printing

No one knows when the first printing press was invented, or who invented it, but the
oldest known printed text originated in China during the first millennium A.D.

The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist book from Dunhuang, China, dating to around 868 A.D.
during the Tang Dynasty, is said to be the oldest known printed book.

The Diamond Sutra was created with a method known as block printing, which utilized
panels of hand-carved wood blocks in reverse.

2.2JOHANNES GUTENBERG printing press

Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany,
when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France, in 1440. He returned
to Mainz several years later and by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to
use commercially.

In 1452, Gutenberg produced the one book to come out of his shop: a Bible. It’s estimated he
printed 180 copies of the 1,300-paged Bible, as many as 60 of them on vellum. Each page of the
Bible contained 42 lines of text in Gothic type, with double columns and featuring some lette rs in
color.

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Western Europe and Eastern US developed the mass media in

the mid 19th century.
Began with the convergence of advances in paper production,
printing press methods and the invention of the telegraph.

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Started in europe and USA towards the end of the 19th

century.
Technology that was included in the entertainment age were
stored sound, affordable cameras, and motion photoraphy.

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Middle of 20th century

Developed with telephone,broadcasting,
recording,and improvement in print technologies
and postal services.
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'Alan Turing, Father of the Modern Computer' provides an overview of Turing's many major
contributions to the development of the computer and computing—including his pioneering
work in the areas now called Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life.

The Turing machine was invented in 1936 by Alan Turing, who called it an "a-machine" (automatic
machine).

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The current age

Convergence of computer, broadcasting, satellite, and visual technology