INFORMATION

SOCIETY

Marisol Tabuyo Pizarro

Antavilla School
2020-2021
DEVELOPMENT OF THE FORMAL
DEFINITION
 Information Society: A society in which information, rather
than material goods, has become the chief economic, social
and cultural motor.
(Whitworth)
 An information society is a society where the creation,
distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information
is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity.
 The aim of the information society is to gain competitive
advantage internationally, through using information
technology (IT) in a creative and productive way.
(Branscomb)
 Ever since the 1960s, ‘information society’ has been one of
the key terms used to describe today’s world
TECHNOLOGY HAS HELPED THE
CREATION OF AN INFORMATION
SOCIETY
 Telephone
 Broadcasting Media

 Computer

 Intranet and Internet

 World Wide Web (WWW)

 Tele communication

 Satellite
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
 Computers have had a huge development
 Computers are part of what we call: Information
systems
INFORMATIC SYSTEMS
CLASSIFICATION

INFORMATIC SYSTEMS

SUPERCOMPUTERS

MAINFRAMES O MACROCOMPUTER

MINICOMPUTER

WORKSTATIONS

PERSONAL COMPUTERS (PC)

ACTIVITY 1. SUPERCOMPUTERS
 Research and describe the main funtions and characteristics of
one of the supercomputers that you can find in the TOP 500 of
supercomputers
 Processor Type
 Operative System

 Builder

 History

 Main function

 Institution where that computers is used

 Building Year

 Other…

 Make a presentation