SCIENCE ,

TECHNOLOGY
AND SOCIETY

THE
INFORMATION
AGE
D r. P r e c i o u s N a j A l c a n t a r a
STS Professor 04/19/21
- HIGH
MODERNIZED
-AUTOMATED
-DATA-DRIVEN
-TECHNOLOGICALLY
ADVANCED
INFORMATION IS
KNOWLEDGE
COMMUNICATED OR
OBTAINED CONCERNING A
SPECIFIC FACT OR
CIRCUMSTANCE
WEBSTER'S ENCYCLOPEDIC UMBRIGED
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THE INFORMATION AGE

iNFORMATION AGE IS
DEFINED...
INFORMATION AGE CAN
ALSO BE DIGITAL AGE
AND NEW MEDIA AGE
AS A "PERIOD STARTING IN THE
LAST QUARTER OF THE 20TH
CENTURY WHENINFORMATION
BECOME EFFORTLESSLY
ACCESSIBLE THROUGH
PUBLICATION AND THROUGH THE
MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATIO BY
COMPUTERS AND COMOUTER
NETWORKS"
 JAMES R. MESSENGER

INFORMATION " the information age is a true new age

based upon the interconnection of
THEORY OF

computers via telecommunications,

with these information systems,
operating in both a real-time and as-
needed basis. futhermore, the primary
factors driving this new age forwardare
AGE

convinience and user-friendliness

which, in turn, will create user
dependance"
 3000 BC 2900 BC

INFORMATION AGE
Sumerian writing Beginnings of
TIMELINE OF THE
system and Egyptians
pictographs to Hieroglyphic
represent words writing

1300 BC
500 BC
Tortoise shell Papyrus roll was
and oracle bone used
writing were
used
INFORMATION AGE
220 BC 100 AD
TIMELINE OF THE
Chinese small seal Book (Parchment
writing was Codex)
developed

105 AD 1455
Woodblock printing Johannes Gutenburg
and paper was invented the printing
invented by Chinese press using movable
metal type.
 1802
1755
• the Library of Congress was
Samuel Johnson's dictionary
established
standardized English spelling.
• Invention of the carbon are
lamp

1830s

• First viable design for a digital

1824
computer
Research on persistence of vision • Augusta Lady Byron writes the
published. world's first computer program
1837 1861

Invention of the Telegraph in Motion pictures were projected

Great Britain and the United onto a screen
States.

1876 1877

Dewey Decimal system was Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated

introduced. high-speed photography
1899 1902

First magnetic recordings Motion Picture special

were released. effects were used

1906 1923

Lee DeForest invented the Television camera tube

electronic amplifying tube was invented by Zvorkyn
(triode)
1926 1939
Regularly scheduled
First practical sound
television braodcasting
movie
began in the US.

1940s 1945

Beginnings of infromation Vannevar Bush foresaw

science as a discipline. the invention of hypertext.
 1948

INFORMATION AGE
1946
Birth of field-of-

TIMELINE OF THE
ENIAC computer information theory
was developed. proposed by Claude
F. Shannon.

1957
1958
Planar Transistor was
First integrated
developed by Jean
circuit
Hoerni
 1969
1960s

INFORMATION AGE
UNIX operating
Library of Congress

TIMELINE OF THE
system was
developed LC MARC
developed, which
(Machine readable
could handle
code)
multitasking

1971 1972

Intel introduced the Optical laserdisc was

first microprocessor developed by Philips
chip and MCA
1974 1975

INFORMATION AGE
MCA and Philips

TIMELINE OF THE
Altair Microcomputer
agreed on a Kit was released; first
standard videodisc personal computer
encoding format for the public.

1977
1984
RadioShack
Apple Mcintosh
introduced the first
computer was
complete personal
introduced.
computer.
Information Age
Mid 1980s
Timeline of the
Artificial Intelligence was
separated from information
science

1987
Hypercard was developed by Bill
Atkinson recipe box metaphor
 1991 January 1997

FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY RSA (ENCRYPTION AND

COMPLETE WORKS OF NETWORK SECURITY
LITERATURE ON ONE CD- SOFTWARE) INTERNET
ROM WAS RELEASED. SECURITY CODE
CRACKED FOR A 48-BIT
NUMBER
as human evolves

INFORMATION ALSO EVOLVES.

Abundance of Information

INFORMATION
ANXIETY
BY RICHARD WURMAN.
 Information
Information
• A COMMODITY,
• AN OVERDEVELOPED
CURRENCY IN THE
PRODUCT
BUSINESS WORLD
• MASS-PRODUCED
• UNSPECIALIZED.
Truths of Information Age

INFORMATION NEWER IS SELECTION IS A

MUST COMPETE EQUATED WITH VIEWPOINT.
TRUER

YOU ARE WHAT YOU

MEDIA SELLS, CULTURE EARLY WORD GETS THE EAT AND SO IS YOUR
BUYS. PERM BRAIN
Truths of Information Age

GREAT DEMAND = IDEAS = UNDEAD

COUNTERFEITED CONTROVERSIAL INFORMATION
WALKS

MEDIA PRESENCE MEDUIM SELECTS THE THE WHOLE TRUTH IS

CREATES A STORY MESSAGE PURSUIT
WOULD YOU LET THE FUTURE
CONSUME YOU OR WOULD
YOU CONSUME THE FUTURE?

THE INFORMATION AGE