INFORMATION

AGE
WEEK 13
INFORMATION AGE

• The development of our system of acquiring, storing and retrieving

information had spurt with the advent of science and technology and now we
are in the century which is considered by many as the Information Age.
• period starting in the last quarter of the 20th century when information
became effortlessly accessible through publication and through the
management of information by computers and computer networks.
INFORMATION AGE

• It is a true new age based upon the interconnection of computers via

telecommunications, with these systems operating on both real-time and as
needed basis- Theory of Information Age (Messenger, 1982).
• Before it has reached its current state, constant change has taken place in the
form of information revolution. By 1960’s to 1970’s, rapid growth of
information resulted to difficulty in collecting and managing them1980’s
there was Information Anxiety (Richard Wurman).
INFORMATION AGE

• In 1990’s, information became the currency of the business world. At

present, information turned out to be a commodity, an over developed
product, mass produced and unspecialized.
INFORMATION AGE

• Robert Harris has outlined the truths about Information Age. He described it as follows
• 1. Information must complete
• 2. Newer is equated to truer
• 3. Selection is a viewpoint
• 4. The media sells what the culture buys
• 5. The early word gets the perm
• 6. You are what you eat and so is your brain
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• 7. Anything in great demand will be counterfeited

• 8. Ideas are seen as controversial
• 9. Undead information walks ever on
• 10. Media presence creates the story
• 11. The medium selects the message
• 12. The whole truth is a pursuit
BIOINFORMATICS

• Accessibility of information was made faster and easier with the aid of
computer. One of the significant applications of computers for science and
research is evident in the field of bioinformatics.
• Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to store, organize
and analyze vast amount of biological data which is available in the form
sequences and structures of proteins – the building blocks of organisms and
nucleic acids- the information carrier (Madan, n.d.)
BIOINFORMATICS

• Such was established because of the need to create databases of biological

sequences.
• Application includes the Human Genome Project, Pharmacogenomics Drug
Discovery, Gene Finder and Annotator.