INFORMATION

REVOLUTION
WHAT IS INFORMATION
REVOLUTION?
 According to……….
HARVEY M. DEITEL (1986)

• INFORMATION REVOLUTION is a period of change that might prove

as significant to the lives of people.
• Development of technologies
(such as computers, digital
communication, microchips in
20th century that has led to
dramatic reduction in tha cost
of obtaining, processing,
storing, and transmitting
information in all forms ( text,
graphics, audio, video).
• The term information revolution describes current economic,
social and technological trends beyond the Industrial Revolution.
 1904
• The information revolution was enabled by advances
in semiconductor technology, particularly the MOS
transistor and integrated circuit, leading to the Information Age in
the early 21st century.The first practical application of
semiconductors in electronics was on 1904
The British polymath crystallographer J.
D. Bernal introduced the term "scientific
and technical revolution" in his 1939
book The Social Function of Science to
describe the new role that science and
technology are coming to play within
society. He asserted that science is
becoming a "productive force", using
the Marxist Theory of Productive
Forces.
 1940-1949
• Information is the central theme of several new sciences, which
emerged in the 1940s, including Claude Shannon's
(1949) Information Theoryand Norbert Wiener's (1948) Cybernetics.
• Cybernatics is the study of controls of any system by using
technology.
 The Main Feature of the
Information Revolution is….

the growing economic, social and

technological role of information.
• “Information –related activities did not come up with the
Information revolution. They existed, in one form or the
other, in all human societies and eventually developed
into institutions, such as……
PLATONIC ACADEMY
PERIPATETIC SCHOOL ARISTOTLE
(384-322 BC)
LYCEUM FOUNDED BY ARISTOTLE
IN 335 BC IN A GROVE SACRED TO
APOLLO LYCEIUS
 THE GREAT LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
IN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT by ALEXANDER
THE GREAT (283 BC)
BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMY (3500-3200
BC.)
INFORMATION
REVOLUTION
timeline
 WRITING
• Writing began in 18th Century B.C in Greece
• The alphabet came from Phoneicia and was written
on Egyptian papyrus
• First library was mid in 8th century B.C
• Materials used were wood,stone,papyrus,hide, bone,
and parchament.
AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF WRITING
 PRINTING
• Began in Europe in the late 1400's
• A German goldsmith developed a printing system using Chinese papers
• A more effective means of recording information in a standard and uniform
way,printing allowed the same document to be distributed to many different
people.
• with the invention of printing came the invention of books.
 CONT......
• beginning with religious text, books, swept the world by
storm. From guides and manuals to fiction novels,
libraries and personal collection of books where
becoming frequent.
• Another perks of the printing age was the literacy.
• With the beginning of printing, more and more people
became literate.
 MASS MEDIA

• 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
method and the invention of the telegraph.
 ENTERTAINMENT
• 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 photography.
• With the advent of cinema and mass media that went beyond print, visual
and auditory experiences could be shared by people in different areas of
tha world.
• it includes newspapers, magazines and audiotapes
 TOOLSHED HOME
• MIDDLE of 20th Century
• developed with telephone, broadcasting, recording, and
improvement in print technologies and postal services
 THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY
• THE CURRENT AGE
• Convergence of computer ,
broadcasting , satellite and
visual technology.
• the internet is unique among the other
mediums in history in that it provides
both one to one communication like
the telephone and one to many
communucation like the television.
 CONCLUSION……….
• During the information revolution the advances in science and
technology makes people easily acquire and transmit or share
information to others.
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