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• Information Age impact on Healthcare

  • Improved access to medical information and data
  • Improved lines of communication
  • Telemedicine/Telehealth
  • Data analytics
  • Advances in medical research
• Information Age impact on Education

  • Access to information
  • Online learning
  • Personalized learning
• Information Age impact on Finance

  • Accessibility
  • Transaction speed
  • Information availability
  • Investment options
• Founding of the ARPA


  1958
• ARPANET is born


  1967
• HTML language, URL and HTTP

  1980
• First virus


  1982
• The first search engine and the first online shops


  1994
• Google launched


  1996
• Social networks created


  2004
• YouTube launched


  2005
• Twitter launched


  2006
• Google Chrome launched


  2008
• Instagram and Pinterest launched

  2010
• Snapchat launched


  2011
• TikTok launched


  2016
• In Spain, there are currently 40.7 million social network users, equivalent to 87.1% of the Spanish population. In addition, 44 million use the Internet daily for an average of 6 hours.
• History of Computers


  • Abacus
  • Napier's Bones
  • Pascaline
  • Stepped Reckoner or Leibnitz Wheel
  • Difference Engine
  • Analytical Engine
  • Tabulating Machine
  • Differential Analyzer
  • Mark I
• Generations of Computers


  • 1st Generation
  • 2nd Generation
  • 3rd Generation
  • 4th Generation
  • 5th Generation
• 1st Generation Computers


  Slow, huge and expensive, used vacuum tubes, batch operating system and punch cards, magnetic tape and paper tape for I/O
• 2nd Generation Computers


  Used transistors, magnetic cores for primary memory, magnetic disc and tapes for secondary storage, assembly language, COBOL and FORTRAN, batch processing and multiprogramming
• 3rd Generation Computers


  Used integrated circuits, remote processing, time-sharing, multi programming, high-level programming languages like FORTRON-II TO IV, COBOL, PASCAL PL/1, ALGOL-68
• 4th Generation Computers


  Used very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits, real time, time sharing and distributed operating system, programming languages like C, C++, DBASE
• 5th Generation Computers


  Used ultra large scale integration (ULSI), parallel processing hardware and AI software, programming languages like C, C++, Java, .Net
• Popular 5th Generation Computers


  • Desktop
  • Laptop
  • NoteBook
  • UltraBook
  • ChromeBook
• Smartphone History


  • 1973 - Working prototype of a mobile cellular phone
  • 1983 - First cell phone gets approval
  • 1991 - 2G and lithium-ion batteries
  • 1992 - First smartphone announced and first SMS sent
  • 1994 - First smartphone hits the market
  • 1997 - The term smartphone was coined and mobile gaming was introduced
• Smartphone


  The first true smartphone was demonstrated at a computer industry tradeshow, but not marketed to consumers for another two years
• The first text message was sent, reading "Merry Christmas"


  December 1992
• First smartphone hits the market

  1994
• IBM Simon Personal Communicator


  A refined version of Canova's prototype, became available to consumers. It had a touchscreen and users could make phone calls, receive faxes and emails, and use apps like an address book, calendar, calculator, appointment scheduler, and notepad
• The IBM Simon Personal Communicator had a price tag of $1,099 and sold 50,000 units in the first six months
• The term "smartphone" was coined and mobile gaming was introduced


  1997
• The first mobile game was Snake, loaded on Nokia's 6110 hand-held mobile phones by Finnish developer Taneli Armanto, launching the mobile gaming industry now worth up to $152 billion
• First front-facing camera phone and GPS

  1999
• The first commercial camera phone, the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, was released in Japan. It had a single front-facing camera and could snap up to 20 photos and send them via email, or 2 photos per second via Japan's cellular network
• The first commercial phone with GPS technology, called the Benefon Esc, was primarily sold in Europe
• First back-facing camera phone

  2000
• The J-SH04, released by Sharp in Japan, was the first mass-market camera phone with a back-facing built-in camera that could instantly transmit photos via carrier network
• Hello, 3G networks


  2001
• Mobile phones could connect to the internet via 3G network for the first time, marking the start of widespread internet use on mobile phones