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    The Information Age began in the late 20th century as information became more easily accessible through computers and computer networks. During this era, information itself became a major commodity and advances in electronics, biology, and computing transformed society. Today, the majority of the workforce is engaged in information-based services rather than manufacturing, and communication worldwide has become cheap and changed how people live and work. However, some argue that overuse of computers in education may impoverish intellectual development in children.

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    The Information Age began in the late 20th century as information became more easily accessible through computers and computer networks. During this era, information itself became a major commodity and advances in electronics, biology, and computing transformed society. Today, the majority of the workforce is engaged in information-based services rather than manufacturing, and communication worldwide has become cheap and changed how people live and work. However, some argue that overuse of computers in education may impoverish intellectual development in children.

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    The Information Age

    The Information Age (Digital Age)


    • When was the last time you used something
    digital?
    The Information Age (Digital Age)

    ➢ Also called the

    ➢ last quarter of the

    ➢ information became effortlessly accessible through


    publications and through the management of information
    by computers and computer networks
    The Information Age (Digital Age)
    • The focus of S&T and society became
    “information” itself (handling & conveying it)
    • Progress in electronics and computers
    caused information to be one of the most
    important commodities
    • Advances in biology
    ✓ Genetics – revolution in information science
    (recombinant DNA)
    ✓ The immune system – also an information processing
    system

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Information & Society
    BEFORE NOW
    ✓During Galileo’s and Newton’s time, people ✓Today, the human mind is pictured
    were viewed as complicated mechanical as a complicated computer
    machines

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Information & Society
    BEFORE NOW
    ✓Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham ✓Steven Jobs and William Gates
    Bell, and Henry Ford

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Information & Society
    BEFORE NOW
    ✓Screw and bolt in the Industrial era ✓ Microchip (inventors were awarded
    a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000)

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Information & Society
    BEFORE NOW
    ✓Majority of labor force was into ✓Majority are engaged in supply
    manufacturing of goods of services

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Information & Globalization

    • Communication worldwide
    became cheap (with new
    phone systems and Internet)
    • Changed the way people work
    ✓ Information-based work
    ✓ Business trends
    ✓ Global banking
    ✓ Scientific enterprise/research
    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Problems with Information Age
    • Infringement of personal privacy

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Problems with Information Age

    • Excessive use of computers in


    teaching young children may
    impoverish the development of
    intellectual capabilities
    ✓ “Knowledge” is replaced by mere
    “data”
    ✓ Ideas contain data, but data
    contain no ideas

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Facts on the Information Age
    • Information must compete.
    • Newer is equated with truer.
    • Selection is a viewpoint.
    • The media sells what the culture buys.
    • The early word gets the perm.
    Serafica et al. Science, Technology, and Society. Rex Bookstore. Manila, Philippines. 2018
    Facts on the Information Age
    • You are what you eat and so is your brain.
    • Anything in great demand will be
    counterfeited.
    • Ideas are seen as controversial.
    • Undead information walks ever on.
    Serafica et al. Science, Technology, and Society. Rex Bookstore. Manila, Philippines. 2018
    Facts on the Information Age

    • Media presence creates the story.


    • The medium selects the message.
    • The whole truth is a pursuit.

    Serafica et al. Science, Technology, and Society. Rex Bookstore. Manila, Philippines. 2018
    What brought us here?
    History of Information
    • “in form” – what we are
    “What makes a tree a tree? And not
    cement?”
    • For 2000 years, explanation/answers
    were based on the head (natural
    philosophy/reason)
    • Oral tradition – fascination with
    sounds and words
    • Print and written culture – printing
    press
    History of Information
    • Alan Turing broke the Nazi code
    • Developed the concept of computers
    • Father of Artificial Intelligence

    Alan Turing
    1912-1954 Enigma Machine Bombe Machine
    Artificial intelligence
    • use of machines to imitate the way
    humans think and behave

    • replicate in a computer the actions


    and functions of biological neurons
    found in the human body

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