Information Age TERMS

• Computer Age, Digital Age, New Media Age -Refers to a historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution
• Pre-industrial → Industrial → Information → Electronic
• Rider

  • miniaturized microform analog photographs, which could be duplicated on-demand for library patrons and other institutions.
• Moore’s Law (1965)

  • an observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years
• Moore’s Law (1965)

  • The law claims that we can expect the speed and capability of our computers to increase every two years because of this, yet we will pay less for them
• 1980

  • production of the smaller and less expensive personal computers allowed for direct access to information.
• Negroponte (1995)

  • published his book, Being Digital, the similarities and differences between products made of atoms and bits
• Primary Information Age- newspaper, radio, television.
• 1. Secondary Information Age- Internet, satellite television and mobile phones
• 1. Tertiary Information Age- emerged by media of the Primary Information Age interconnected with media of the Secondary Information Age
• PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE

  • time before there were machines and tools to help them perform the tasks.
• PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE

  • About 2.5 million years before writing was developed.
• PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE

  •  used to start fires, hunt, and bury their dead.
• • Egyptians used papyrus scrolls the earliest known roll of papyrus, dated to around 2900 B.C
• PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE

  • Egyptians used papyrus scrolls (the earliest known roll of papyrus, dated to around 2900 B.C)
• PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE

  • Sumerians used clay tablets
• PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE

  • Prehistoric man used hand stencils and simple geometric shapes to create art on the walls of caves
• PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE

  • Gutenberg invented the printing press during Renaissance period
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  

  • period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain 
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  (1700’S TO 1930’S)
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  (1700’S TO 1930’S)

  • characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  (1700’S TO 1930’S)

  • power loom - a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. 
• • The first power loom was designed in 1786 by Cartwright and first built that same year.
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  

  • Morse invented the telegraph
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  (1700’S TO 1930’S)

  • Vail developed an instrument that was called the register for recording the received messages.
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  

  • Graham Bell patent the telephone, an electric tool transmitting analogue speech along wires. 
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  

  • The first discernible speech transmitted over a telephone system was “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.”
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  

  • Edison invented the phonograph,  a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  

  • Hertz identified and studied radio waves
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  

  • Marconi an Italian Physicist that developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers.
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  

  • Farnsworth called the FORGOTTEN GENIUS.
• INDUSTRIAL AGE  

  • Farnsworth invented the first fully electronic television.
• Electronic Age

  • when electronic equipment and large technologies, including computers came into use
• Electronic Age (1930 - 1990’s)
• • Transistor is a device that regulates current or voltage flow and acts as a switch or gate for electronic signals.
• Electronic Age (1954)

  • Transistor Radio a radio receiver in which semiconductor devices, primarily transistors and semiconductor diodes, are used for the amplification, frequency conversion, and detection of signals.
• Electronic Age (1954)

  • Texas instruments made the first transistor radio named Regency TR-1.
• Electronic Age

  • Scherbius -A german who Invented Enigma machine
• Electronic Age

  • ENIGMA  a piece of spook hardware used as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War II.  
• Electronic Age

  • ENIGMA  a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication.