The document discusses the Electronic Age and the transition to the New Information Age. The Electronic Age began with the widespread use of electronic equipment including computers. During this time, Thomas Edison conducted experiments with electricity and invented the duplex telegraph. Technologies then advanced to include cassette recorders, Betamax players, CDs, DVDs, and color television accessing both local and international networks. The New Information Age is characterized by a shift to a computer and digital economy based on information and computerization.
The document discusses the Electronic Age and the transition to the New Information Age. The Electronic Age began with the widespread use of electronic equipment including computers. During this time, Thomas Edison conducted experiments with electricity and invented the duplex telegraph. Technologies then advanced to include cassette recorders, Betamax players, CDs, DVDs, and color television accessing both local and international networks. The New Information Age is characterized by a shift to a computer and digital economy based on information and computerization.
The document discusses the Electronic Age and the transition to the New Information Age. The Electronic Age began with the widespread use of electronic equipment including computers. During this time, Thomas Edison conducted experiments with electricity and invented the duplex telegraph. Technologies then advanced to include cassette recorders, Betamax players, CDs, DVDs, and color television accessing both local and international networks. The New Information Age is characterized by a shift to a computer and digital economy based on information and computerization.
electronic equipment, including computers came into use. • In the last quarter of the 1800, Thomas Alva Edison tried all kinds of experiment on electricity. • Thomas Alva Edison, work as apprentice telegrapher at the age of sixteen as he was creative, imaginative, and curious. • He was able to invent a duplex telegraph which can transmit two messages these messages from the telegraph were called TELEGRAMS. • Later, cassette recorders were invented in the last quarter of the 1900. • Betamax also became popular as these were recorded films that can be viewed thru a BETA place. • After beta, came from improved of Video player with the CD( compact disc). • The DVD and CD player became handy portable gadgets. • Television has gone a long away, form the black and white TV, and now colored and can access both local ain international television networks. New Information Age -It also known as the computer age, digital age, or New Media Age is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the industrial revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on Information computerization.