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 Chapter 3 : Specific • define Information
Issues In Science, Age
Technology, and Society • discuss the history of
Lesson 1: The Information Age; and
Information Age • Understand the
factors that need to
Lesson Objectives: be considered in
At the end of this checking website
lesson, the students sources.
should be able to:
Introduction: circumstance.
Definition of (Webster’s Encyclopedic
Information and Unabridged
Information Age Dictionary.
 Information is a  As defined by
knowledge Vocubulary.com
communicated or (n.d), the Information
obtained concerning a Age is a period
specific fact or starting
in the last quarter of the
20th century when
information become
effortlessly accessible
through publications
and through the
management of
information by
computers and
computer networks.
 According to the
Theory of
Information Age by
James R. Messenger
(1982), the
information age is a
true new age based
upon the
interconnection of
computers via tele-
communications, with user-friendliness which,
these information in turn, create user-
systems operating on dependence.
both real-time and as-
needed basis. History
Furthermore, the The timeline on the
primary factors driving next page traces the
this new age forward are history and emergence
convenience, and of the Information Age
 United States represent words.
American History, n.d.)
Example of Sumerian
Timeline of Information Pictographs:
Age
 3000 B.C.- Sumerian
writing system used
pictographs to
 2900 B.C.- Beginnings
of Egyptian
hieroglyphic writing

Example of Hieroglyph
of Egyptians
 1300 B.C.- Tortoise
shell and oracle bone
writing were used
 Example of Tortoise  500 B.C.- Papyrus
Shell and Oracle Bone roll was used.
Writings
Example of Papyrus Roll
 220 B.C.- Chinese  100 B.C.- Book
small seal writing was (parchment codex)
developed.
Example of Book
Example of Chinese (Parchment Codex)
Small Seal Writing
 105 A.D.- Woodblock Example of Paper
printing and paper (Kertas)
were invented by the
Chinese.

Example of Woodblock
Printing
 1455- Johannes
Gutenberg invented
the printing press
 using movable metal  1755-Samuel
type. Johnson’s dictionary
standardized English
Example of Movable spelling
Printing Press
 1802- Library of Invention of the
Congress was carbon arc lamp
established.
Example of Carbon Arc
Library of Congress Lamp
 1824- Research on  1830s- First viable
persistence of vision design for a digital
published computer

Persistence of Vision by Analytical Machine by

Kyedel Thompson Charles Babbage
 Augusta Lady Byron  1837-Invention of the
writes the world’s first telegraph in Great
computer program Britain and the
United States
 1861- Motion pictures  1876- Dewey decimal
were presented onto system was
the screen introduced

 1877-Eadweard
Muybridge demon-
 strated high- speed  1899- First magnetic
photography using a recordings were
zoopraxiscope. released
 1902- Motion picture tronic amplifying
special effects were tube (triode)
used.

 1906- Lee Defrost  1923- Television

invented the elec- camera tube was
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 invented by movie.
Zvorkyn

 1926- First practical  1939- Regularly

sound scheduled
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 television science as a
broadcasting began in discipline.
the U.S.  Vannevar Bush
foresaw the invention
of hypertext.

 1940s- Beginnings of
information
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 1946- ENIAC Claude E. Shannon.
Computer was
developed.

 1957- Planar
transistor was
 1948- Birth of field- developed by Jean
of-information theory Hoerni.
proposed by
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  1960s- Library of
Congress developed
LC MARC (machine
readable code).
 1958- First integrated
circuit

 1969- UNIX
operating system
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 was developed, which microprocessor chip.
could handle
multitasking

 1972- Optical
 1971-Intel introduced laserdisc was
the first developed by
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 Phillips and MCA.  1975- Altair
Microcomputer Kit
was released; first
personal computer
for the public.

 1974- MCA and

Phillips agreed on a
standard videodisc
encoding format.  1977- RadioShack
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 introduced the first Macintosh computer
complete personal was introduced.
computer

 Mid 1980s- Artificial

intelligence was
 1984- Apple t
 separated from  1991- Four hundred
information science. fifty complete works
 1987-Hypercard was of literature on one
developed by Bill CD-ROM was
Atkinson. released.

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 January 1997- RSA
(encryption and
network security
software) Internet
security code cracked Evolution of Man and
for a 48-bit number. Information

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 Information got daily as they’re
ahead of us and overwhelmed with facts
started to grow at a and data pretending to
rate we were be useful information.
unprepared to  Information
handle. overload- occurs
 Information anxiety- when a person is
refers to the unable to process
uneasiness most incoming infor-
people feel
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information and  Information
communication, ignorance- means
rendering the ignoring pertinent
information ineffective information and
and eventually leading to beneficial
the cessation of information sources
information processing. since there is too
much to work with.
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 In his article “Truths stand out and be
of the Information Age” recognized in the
(n.d.), Robert Harris increasing clutter.
detailed some facts on 2. Newer is equated with
the Information Age. truer. We forgot the
1. Information must truth that any fact or
compete. There is a value can endure.
need for information 3. Selection is a
to viewpoint. Choose
multiple sources for
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your information if you the perm. The first
want to receive a more media channel to expose
balanced view of reality. an issue often defines the
4. The media sells what context, terms, and
the culture buys. In attitudes surrounding it.
other words, 6. You are what you eat
information is driven by and so is your brain. Do
cultural priorities. not draw conclusions
5. The early word gets unless
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all ideas and information events are fabricated by
are presented to you. tabloids, publicists, or
7. Anything in great other agents of
demand will be information fraud.
counterfeited. The 8. Ideas are seen as
demand for incredible controversial. It is
knowledge, scandals, almost certain
and secrets is ever- impossible to make any
present; hence, many assertion that
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will not find some circulate.
supporters and some 10. Media presence
detractors. creates the story. People
9. Undead information behave much differently
walks over on. Rumors, from the way they would
lies, disinformation, and if being filmed when the
gossips never truly die media are present,
down. They persist and especially film news or
continue to television media.
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11. The medium selects
the message. Television
is mainly pictorial,
partially oral, and
slightly textual, so visual
stories are emphasized:
fires, chases, and
disasters.
12. The whole truth is
a pursuit. The
information that reaches
us is usually selected,
verbally charged,
filtered, slanted, and
sometimes, fabricated.
What is neglected is
often more important
than what is
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included. 2017).
Types of Computer
Computer 1. Personal Computer
Computer are among (PC)
the most important 2. Desktop Computer
contributions of 3. Laptops
advances in the 4. Personal Digital
information Age to Assistants (PDAs)
society (Ushistory, 5. Server
6. Mainframes
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7. Wearable Computers Information Theory.
 The internet is a
The World Wide Web worldwide system of
(Internet) interconnected
 Several historians networks that
trace the origin of the facilitate data
internet to Claude E. transmission among
Shannon, regarded as innumerable
the father of computers.
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 One early problem listed results to reflect
faced by the Internet page popularity when
users was speed. they determined that the
 Sergey Brin and most popular result
Larry Page, directors would frequently be the
of a Stanford most usable.
research project, built  Back then, new forms
a search engine that of communication
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were also introduced. that the internet created
 Consequently, a technological divide
companies whose that increased the gap
business are built on between the members of
digitized have become the higher class and the
valuable and lower class of the society.
powerful in a  On one hand, the
relatively short unregulated and loose
period of time. nature of the
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Internet allowed applications of
pornography to be computers for science
broadcast to millions of and research is evident
homes. in the field of
bioinformatics.
Applications of  Early interest in
Computers in Science bioinformatics was
and Research established because of
 One of the significant a need to create
databases of
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biological consequences. formal database, known
 While the initial as the SWISS-PROT
databases of protein protein sequence
sequences were database, was initiated
maintained at in 1986.
individual  Computers and
laboratories, the software tools are
development of the a widely used for
consolidated generating these
databases and to
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identify the function of development process by
proteins, model the predicting possible
structure of proteins, targets.
determine the coding  The sequence
(useful) regions of information
nucleic acid sequences, generated by the
find suitable drug human genome
compounds from a large research, initiated in
pool, and optimize the 1988, has now been
drug stored as a
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primary information drug discovery.
source for the future
applications in medicine. How to Check the
 Moreover, from the Reliability of Web
pharmaceutical Sources
industry’s point of It is noteworthy to
view, bioinformatics consider and apply the
is the key to rational following guidelines to
avoid misinformation
(Lee
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College Library, n.d) 4. Who is the intended
1. Who is the author of audience?
the article/site? 5. What is the quality of
2. Who published the information provided on
site? the website?
3. What is the main
purpose of the site? Why
the author write it and
why did the publisher
post it?
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1. AFA e-Newsletter World Culture &
2. American Memory Resources
3. Bartleby.com Great 8. Google Books
Books Online 9. Googlescholar.com
4. Chronicling America 10. History sites with
5. Cyber Bullying primary documents.
6. Drug information 11. Illinois Digital
websites Archives
7. Global Gateway: 12. Internet Archive
13. Making of America
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14. Internet Archive for 20. Nursing sites
CARLI digitized 21. Project Gutenberg
resources 22. Shmoop
15. Internet Public 23. StateMaster
Library 24. Virtual Reference
16. ipl2
17. Librarians’ Internet Summary
Index  Nowadays,
18. Maps information could be
19. NationMaster shared or
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transferred quickly. disseminating
 The rapid upgrade of information and we also
information poses need to verify
both positive and information before
negative impacts to believing them and using
our society. and sharing them. We
Therefore, we need to should share
carefully check our information that could
motives before help improve our lives
and others.
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 Chapter 3 : Specific • determine the
Issues In Science, interrelatedness of
Technology, and Society society, environment,
Lesson 2: Biodiversity and health;
and the Healthy Society • create a diagram that
would show the
At the
Lesson end of this
Objectives: relatedness of species
lesson, the students in forming up a
should be able to: diverse and healthy
society without
compromising one Introduction:
another; and  Decrease in
• identify everyday biodiversity is
tasks and evaluate eminent worldwide.
whether they Vertebrates fell to
contribute to the 60% from the 1970s
wellness and health of due to human causes.
biodiversity.  The World Wide
Fund for Nature and
Zoological Society of
London reported an cause their deaths.
annual decrease in  Marco Lambertini,
wildlife by 2%. the General Director
 Humans have of WWF
industrialized the International,
natural of wildlife as described that the
well as marine life. disappearance of
leaving these wildlife is at an
creatures with no unprecedented rate.
place to live would  Mass extinction is
eventually described as the
Disappearance of species ecosystem (Inquirer.net,
at a rate of 1,000 faster 2016).
than usual.  This is but a pressing
 The disappearance of statement for people
species in a certain to know more about
environment causes the importance of our
an imbalance in the diverse environment,
ecosystem, producing and how human
more chaotic changes activities can either
that harm the entire contribute to its
growth or destruvtion. Biodiversity and
 Thus, it is timely to Ecosystem
know about the  Biodiversity is
pressing effects of defined as the vast
species being extinct variety of life forms
and that of our in the entire Earth.
ecosystem being Its definition is in the
imbalanced. structural and
functional perspective
and not as individual
species.
 Another definition of this includes diversity
biodiversity is “the within species, between
variability among species, and of
living organisms from ecosystems.
all sources, including  Biodiversity is the
terrestrial, marine, source of the essential
and other aquatic goods and ecological
ecosystems and the services that
ecological complexes constitute the source
of which they are of life for all and it
part; has direct
consumptive value in relationship of the biotic,
food, agriculture, the living organisms,
medicine, and in and the abiotic,
industry” (Villaggio nonliving organisms.
Globale, 2009).  Interdisciplinary
 Understanding approach is needed to
biodiversity within study the ecosystem
the concept of as it plays a major
ecosystem needs a role in this natural
thorough study on the dynamics.
 Sustainability of the creatures.
ecosystem ensures a  In simpler terms, it is
better survival rate true that people will
against any natural always depend on
disaster. Therefore, biodiversity on the
we, as human wholeness of our
inhabitants of the being, and in our
ecosystem, must everyday lives.
preserve and  Indirectly, changes in
conserve the ecosystem affect
biodiversity of all
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livelihood, income, and could have erratic effects
on occasion, may even not only in wildlife or
cause political conflict marine life but also in
(WHO, n.d.) human beings.
 The animals, insects
Changes in Biodiversity and all types of life
 Alteration in any forms in the cleared
system could bring area would either be
varied effects. A displaced or most
change in biodiversity likely be killed.
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 The food chain might different levels.
be damaged. From
this, we can clearly Threats on Biodiversity
infer that when our The following are the
ecosystem is not well major threats to
taken care of, biodiversity according to
biodiversity United Nations’
encounters changes Environment
that may impact Programme
human health on such 1. Habitat loss and
destruction
2. Alterations in improvement of
ecosystem composition. technology and science
3. Over-exploitation at present, we still have
4. Pollution and a lot to learn about
contamination biodiversity. However,
5. Global climate change the basic concept about
biodiversity loss came
Consequences of from the studies of
Biodiversity Loss Charles Darwin and
 Even with the Alfred Russell Wallace.
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 Intact ecosystems humankind is willing to
function best since sustain a great deal of
the organism biodiversity loss if there
composing them are are concomitant benefits
specialized to to society; we hope they
function in that are not net benefits. In
ecosystem to capture, many cases, the benefits
transfer, utilize and seem to accrue to a few
ultimately, lose both individuals only, with
energy and nutrients. net societal loss.
 It is apparent that th
 However, it is “The Earth will retain
extremely difficult to its most striking feature,
estimate the future its biodiversity, only if
costs of losses in humans have the
biodiversity or of prescience to do it so.
environmental This will occur, it seems,
damage (Rainforest only if we realize the
Conservation Fund, extent to which we use
2017). biodiversity (Rainforest
 As stated by Tilman, Conservation Fund,
2017).”
Nutritional Impact of  Nutrition and
Biodiversity biodiversity are
 According to the linked at many levels;
World Health the ecosystem, with
Organization (WHO), food production as an
biodiversity is a vital ecosystems service;
element of a human the species in the
being’s nutrition ecosystem; and the
because of its genetic diversity
influence to food within species.
production.
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Nutritional Impact of  Nutrition and
Biodiversity biodiversity are
 According to the linked at many levels;
World Health the ecosystem, with
Organization (WHO), food production as an
biodiversity is a vital ecosystems service;
element of a human the species in the
being’s nutrition ecosystem; and the
because of its genetic diversity
influence to food within species.
production.
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Intensified and impact global nutritional
enhanced food status and human
production food health. Habitat
production through simplification, species
irrigation, use of loss, and species
fertilizer, plant succession often enhance
protection (pesticides), communities,
or the introduction of vulnerabilities as a
crop varieties and function of
cropping patterns affect environmental
biodiversity and thus receptivity to ill health
Health, Biology, and habitat are provided by
Biodiversity its environment.
 Almost all living  Although the
organism are environment sustains
dependent to their human life, it can also
environment to live cause diseases.
and reproduce. Basic  Lack of basic
needs of living necessities is a
organisms such as air, significant cause of
water, food and human mortality.
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 Unsafe drinking Environment-Related
water and poor Illnesses
sanitation and The following are
hygiene are some human illnesses
responsible for a that are found to be
variety of infectious related with its
diseases, such as environment.
schistosomiasis, 1. Parkinson’s disease
diarrhea, cholera, 2. Heart disease
meningitis, and 3. Cancer
gastritis. 4. Pulmonary disease
5. Chronic obstructive  By contrast, activities
pulmonary disease\ that promote health
6. Asthma and extend human
7. Diabetes life could have
8. Obesity adverse
9. Occupational injuries environmental effects.
10. Dysentery  To prevent some
11. Arthritis diseases, it may be
12. Malaria necessary to alter the
13. Depression environment.
 A reduction in generating pollution and
mortality from waste, and so on (Rensik
starvation or disease & Portier, 2017).
can lead to Interestingly, according
overpopulation, to experts, climate
which stresses, the change could also have a
environment in many serious impact on
different ways, human health and could
increasing use of deteriorate farming
fossil fuels, clearing of systems and reduce food
land, nutrients.
 Relationships human life, but can it
between human also pose hazards to
health and the human health and the
environment raise environment, such as air
many ethical, social, and water pollution, oil
and legal dilemmas spills, and destruction of
by forcing people to habitats (Rensik &
choose among Portier, 2017). Many of
competing values. the issues at the
 Energy production intersection of health
and use help sustain and
health and the human health, but
environment have to do taking steps to
managing benefits and drastically reduce
risks. No issue demands greenhouse gases could
greater care in balancing have adverse
benefits and risks than consequences for global,
global warming while national, and local
climate change is likely economies. Managing
to cause tremendous benefits and risks also
harm to the environment raises social justice
and concerns.
 Communities and process should be fair,
nations should wisely open and democratic, so
choose a site for a that people who will be
factory, a power affected by
plant, or waste dump, environmental risks
or regulating safety in have a voice in these
the workplace to deliberations and can
minimize impact to make their concerns
the society. known. (Rensik &
 The decision-making Portier, 2017).
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 When drafting and However, almost
implementing everyone in the
environmental health population has an above-
regulations, it is average susceptibility to
important to consider at least one
vulnerable environmental risk
subpopulations. factor. The populations
 Justice demands that who are vulnerable to a
we take care of people particular
who are vulnerable. environmental risk
factor must be defined
 In addition to this, quarantine; and disease
various public health surveillance.
strategies pit the Restrictions on property
rights of individuals rights are justified to
against the good of protect human health
society, such as and the environment.
mandatory treatment, However, opponents of
vaccination, or these restrictions argue
diagnostic testing; that they are not
isolation and adequately supported by
evidence.
 Human rights issues studied in order to not
also come up with the compromise biodiversity,
research on while at the same time,
environmental health promote good health on
that involves human the society.
subjects.
 With this in mind, a Summary
mitigating plan and a  We have to consider
workable plan of the entire Earth as a
action should be single unit.
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 The value of  We must begin to give
biodiversity is the the natural capital
value of everything stock that produces
(Rainforest these services
Conservation Fund, adequate weight in
n. d.) decision-making
 We must recognize process, otherwise,
the value of the current and
organisms which we continued future
share the planet. human welfare may
drastically suffer.