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Objectives
At the end of the session the students should be able to:
1. Link learned concepts to the development of the information age and its impact on society.
2. Illustrate how the social media and information age have impacted our lives.
I. The Information Age (Gutenberg to Social Media)
History of the Information Age
Date
Event
3000 BC
Sumerian writing system uses pictographs to represent words.
2900
Beginnings of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.
1300
Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing.
500
Papyrus roll.
220
Chinese small seal writing developed.
100 AD
Book (parchment codex)
105
Wood-block printing and paper is invented
1455
Johann Gutenberg invents printing press using movable metal type.
1755
Samuel Johnson’s dictionary standardizes English spelling.
1802
The Library of Congress is established.
Invention of the carbon arc lamp.
1824
Research on persistence of vision published.
1830s
First viable design for a digital computer.
August Lady Byron world’s first computer program.
1837
Invention of telegraph in Great Britain and the United States.
1861
Motion pictures projected onto a screen.
1876
Dewey Decimal system introduced.
1877
Edweard Muybridge demonstrates high-speed photography.
1899
First magnetic recordings.
1902
Motion picture special effects.
1906
Lee DeForest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode).
1923
Television camera tube invented by Zvorkyn.
1926
First practical sound movie.
1939
Regularly scheduled television broadcasting begins in the U.S.
1940s
Beginnings of information science as a discipline.
1945
Vannevar Bush foresees the invention of hypertext.
1946
ENIAC computer developed.
1948
Birth of field-of-information theory proposed by Claude E. Shannon
1957
Planar transistor developed by Jean Hoerni.
1958
First integrated circuit.
1960s
Library of Congress develops LC MARC (machine readable code).
1969
UNIX operating system developed, which could handle multitasking.
1971
Intel introduces first microprocessor chip.
1972
Optical laserdisc developed by Philips and MCA.
1974
MCA and Philips agree on standard videodisc encoding format.
1975
Altair Microcomputer Kit: first personal computer for the public.
1977
RadioShack introduces first complete personal computer.
1984
Apple MacIntosh computer introduced.
Mid 80s
Artificial intelligence separates from information science.
1987
Hypercard developed by Bill Atkinson recipe box metaphor.
1991
Four hundred fifty complete works of literature on one CD-ROM.
Jan. 1997
Internet security code cracked for a 48-bit number.
The Information Age has changed people, technology, science, economics, culture, and even the way the people think. The Internet is arguably the most prominent innovation of the Information Age. The Internet changed the way people do everything. It has made the people lazier, but it also made most of the population smarter. It has made the industrial countries stronger; hence, economics receive more from them and keep the world turning. People are becoming more mature and more educated due to things like the computer and the Internet. This time period has reshaped governments with new technology being developed every day. But because of these developments, new laws had to be enacted to stop hacking, piracy, and identity theft, and other cybercrimes.
The Information Age is now. 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.
Impacts of Information Age
The Information Age has brought many new inventions and innovations. Different modes of communication services emerged such as texting, emails, video calls, and the social media. People learn new languages easier and books have been translated in different languages, as people around the world become more educated. Information Age is also known as the Entrepreneurship Age. Nowadays, entrepreneurs can start and run a company easier and faster than before. Jobs have also been easier, and some jobs can also be done in the comfort of their own homes.
However, the Information Age is not all good. There are people in the world who believed that they can live their entire life through the internet world. There are huge criminal organizations hacking governments’ and companies’ systems and obtaining confidential information to continue their way of life. It also impacts in our work ethics by distracting us and causing to lose interest , in the task we are doing. For the students, they tend to play video games than focusing on their studies. It has also created job shortage because machines are now being used to do the work humans once did.
Nevertheless, considering the many benefits we get from these technologies, we must also be responsible in utilizing them to avoid harming others and ourselves. Here are some rules of netiquettes that may help us when using the social media:
1. Remember the human
- When you’re holding a conversation online remember that your correspondent is a person with feelings more or less like your own.
2. Adhere to the same standards of behaviour online that you follow in real life
3. Know that you are in a cyberspace
- What’s perfectly acceptable in one area may be dreadfully rude in another.
4. Respect other people’s time and bandwidth
- When you send email or post to others, make sure that the time they spend reading your posts is not wasted.
1. Make yourself look good online
- Pay attention to the content of what you are writing. Bad information propagates like wildfire on the net.
2. Share expert knowledge
- Remember that internet itself was founded and grew because scientists wanted to share knowledgeable information.
7. Help keep flame wars under control
- “Flaming” is what people do when they express a strongly held opinion without holding back any emotion.
8. Respect other people’s privacy
9. Don’t abuse your power
10.Be forgiving of other people’s mistakes
- If you decide to inform someone of a mistake, point it out politely and preferably by private email rather than in public.
Quiz / Activity
What do you think are the major contributions of S & T to Philippine nation-building?
What policies do you want the government to implement in the near future?
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