part 6

• The information age began around the 1970s and is still going on today
• Information Age

  It is also known as the

  1. computer age
  2. digital age
  3. new media age
• Information Age brought about a time period in which people could access information and knowledge easily. This brought about changes in the society from traditionally industrialized to one reliant on information computerization.
• The modern computer was born out of the urgent necessity after the Second World War to face the challenge of Nazism through innovation.
• But the first iteration of the computer as we now understand it came much earlier when, in the 1830s, an inventor named Charles Babbage designed a device called the analytical engine.
• But the first iteration of the computer as we now understand it came much earlier when, in the 1830s, an inventor named Charles Babbage designed a device called the analytical engine.
• But the first iteration of the computer as we now understand it came much earlier when, in the 1830s, an inventor named Charles Babbage designed a device called the analytical engine.
• But the first iteration of the computer as we now understand it came much earlier when, in the 1830s, an inventor named Charles Babbage designed a device called the analytical engine.
• analytical engine was a general-purpose device that could compute many different problems
• analytical engine was to be digital, automatic, mechanical, and controlled by variable programs.
• analytical engine would solve any calculation you wished. It would be the first computer.