Week 13

• Fremont Rider described the miniaturized microform analog photographs, which could be duplicated on-demand for library patrons and other institutions


  1945
• Production of the smaller and less expensive personal computers allowed for direct access to information

  Early 1980s
• Nicholas Negroponte published his book, Being Digital, the similarities and differences between products made of atoms and bits


  1995
• Newspaper, radio, television


  Primary Information Age
•  Internet, satellite, television and mobile phones


  Secondary Information Age
• Emerged by media of the Primary Information Age interconnected with media of the Secondary Information Age

  Tertiary Information Age
• a 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, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, and bury their dead.


  Pre-industrial Age
• Communications were limited between communities.

  Pre-industrial Age
• People used traditional paper and writing materials, signs or symbols to communicate with each other

  Pre-industrial Age
• Egyptians used papyrus scrolls
• Sumerians used clay tablets
• Pre-historic men used hand stencils and simple geometric shapes to create art on the walls of caves
• Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press during Renaissance period
• is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain


  Industrial Age
• Is 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
• Samuel F.B Morse invented the telegraph which became the standard for international communication with a modified code
• Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone, an electric tool transmitting analogue speech along wires
• Thomas Edison invented the phonograph
• Heinrich Hertz identified and studied radio waves in 1886
• A device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound

  Phonograph
• Guiglielmo Marconi developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers
• Philo Farnsworth invented the first fully electronic television. It became an important mass medium for advertising, propaganda and entertainment.
• began when electronic equipment and large technologies, including computers came into use

  Electronic Age
• The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age
• Transistor led to the creation of other media tool
• In this age, long distance communication became more efficient.


  Electronic Age
• People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers.

  Electronic Age
• A piece of spook hardware used as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two

  Enigma Machine
• Became the most popular electronic communication and device in history.

  Transisor radio
• Is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer.

  EDSAC
• What is EDSAC?

  Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
• As the first electronic general purpose digital computer

  ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
• is a line of electronic digital stored-program computers

  UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer)
• is the first mass produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware

  IBM
• Hewlett Packard 9100A is an early computer or programmable calculator
• Floppy disk is a removal magnetic storage medium
• Walkman is originally used for portable audio cassette players
• People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology

  Information Age
• Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized

  Information Age