SEMIFINA

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & 20

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SOCIETY 23
LECTURE |
THE INFORMATION AGE
INFORMATION
is “knowledge communicated or obtained concerning a  220 BC
specific fact or circumstance.”
Chinese small seal
INFORMATION AGE writing was developed.
 defined as a “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” (Vocabulary.com, n.d.)
 is also called the Digital Age and the New Media Age  100 AD
because it was associated with the development of
computers. Book (parchment codex)

JAMES R. MESSENGER
“the Information Age is a true new age based upon the
interconnection of computers via telecommunications, with
these information systems operating on both a real-time  105 AD
and as-needed basis. Furthermore, the primary factors
driving this new age forward are convenience and user- Woodblock printing and
friendliness which, in turn, will create user dependence.” paper was invented by
the Chinese.
HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
 3000 BC

Sumerian writing system  1455

used pictographs to
present words. Johannes Gutenberg
invented the printing
press using movable
 2900 BC

Beginnings of Egyptian
 1755
hieroglyphic writing.

Samuel Johnson’s
dictionary standardized
 1300 BC English spelling.

 1802

Tortoise shell and oracle

bone writing were used.

 500 BC

The Library of Congress was

Papyrus roll was used. established.

Invention of the carbon arc lamp.

 1824
Motion pictures
special effects were
Research on
used.
persistence of vision
published.

 1830’s

First visible design for a

digital computer.

 1837

Invention of the
telegraph in Great
Britain and the United
States.

 1861

Motion pictures were

projected onto a
screen.

 1876

Dewey Decimal system

was introduced.

 1877

Eadweard Muybridge
demonstrated high-
speed photography.

 1899

First magnetic
recordings were
released.

 1902