The Information Age

The innovations and inventions of the information age are

intended for society’s well-being.
However, apart from the benefits that these innovations
and inventions bring to humanity, a wide range of negative
impacts have been noted.
It is necessary that society is aware of these impacts
because these will enlighten and guide everyone to be
protected from whatever the negative effects may cause.
Development of Information Age

1. Introduction of printing press

2. Development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of
Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution
3. Laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based
economy and the spread of learning to the masses.
4. Free flow of information:
= basic idea was used to develop modern inventions
= discoveries paved the way for modern tools, inventions and
innovations
5. major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation,
and technology
Inventions and Innovations of the Information Age:
= computer
= internet
= world wide web
= electronic mail
= Microsoft
Impacts of the Information Age on Society
Positive Impacts:

1. The Information Age has made industrial countries stronger.

2. People are becoming more mature and more educated due to things
like the computer and the Internet.
3. Information Age has reshaped governments, with new technology
being created every day. Governments can now have more advanced
and effective militaries.
4. The Internet has turned society into homebodies, individuals who do
everything from the comfort of their homes instead of venturing
outdoors to complete tasks.
Positive Impacts:
5.People can do everything online; shopping, communicating,
bill paying, working, education, entertainment, even ordering
food.
6. The commercial possibilities were limitless.
7. Convenience was greatly improved.
8. Chat rooms and email allowed individuals to converse who
may never have had the opportunity in the past.
9. Educational opportunities were greatly enhanced because of
the wealth of knowledge now placed at the fingertips of any
wired individual.
= SURFING THE 'NET" became a pastime in and of itself.
Negative impacts
1) Huge criminal organizations rely on hacking into government
systems and obtaining confidential information to continue their way
of life.
2) It also impacts our work ethics by distracting us and causing us
to lose interest in the task we are doing.
3) This time period has also created a shortage of jobs and making
many jobs obsolete because machines are now being used to do the
work humans once did.
Negative Impacts:
4) Online shopping, communicating, bill paying, working,
education, entertainment, even ordering food may be good, but
it has also made us a very lazy and uneducated society.
5) Critics charged that the Internet created a technological
divide that increased the gap between the haves and have-nots.
6) Hate groups were using the Internet to expand their bases
and recruit new members.
Social Media

Most popular social media websites:

Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Youtube
Viber
WhatsApp
Tiktok
Quora
Snapchat
LinkedIn
People who live in poverty, such as homeless people, have low
levels of access to computers and Internet or a lack of familiarity
with these technologies.

The digital divide is a measure of disparity in the level of access to

technology between households, socioeconomic levels or other
demographic categories.

Social Media can be an effective communication (or marketing) tool

for corporations, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, advocacy
groups, political parties, and governments.
Girls generally show more emotion in their posts and more
frequently change their profile pictures, which according to some
psychologists can lead to self-objectification.
Self-objectification occurs when individuals treat themselves
as objects to be viewed and evaluated based upon
appearance.
Because of algorithms on social media which filter and display news
content which are likely to match their users’ political preferences, a
potential impact of receiving news from social media includes an
increase in political polarization due to selective exposure.
.Users of Facebook generally use their profile to reflect that they are a
"normal" person. Social media was found to uphold gender stereotypes
both feminine and masculine.

Angry or emotional conversations can lead to real-world interactions

outside of the Internet, which can get users into dangerous situations.

Excessive use of digital technology, like social media, by adolescents

can cause disruptions in their physical and mental health, in sleeping
patterns, their weight and levels of exercise and notably in their
academic performance.
Social media has offered a new platform for peer pressure with both
positive and negative communication.

From Facebook comments to likes on Instagram, how the youth

communicate and what is socially acceptable is now heavily based on
social media.

The Information Age was formed by capitalizing on computer

microminiaturization advances, which, upon broader usage within
society, would lead to modernized information and to communication
processes becoming the driving force of social evolution.
The Information Age is coupled tightly with the advent of personal
computers.

The Information Age is now every era from the Stone Age up to The
Industrial Revolution has led to the world as we know it.
Without the information, knowledge and discoveries of those
from the past, we would not be where we are today. The past
has shaped our present and will continue to shape our future.

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