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    SEMIFINA

    SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & 20


    LS
    SOCIETY 23
    LECTURE |
    THE INFORMATION AGE
    INFORMATION
    is “knowledge communicated or obtained concerning a  220 BC
    specific fact or circumstance.”
    Chinese small seal
    INFORMATION AGE writing was developed.
     defined as a “period starting in the last quarter of the
    20th century when information became effortlessly
    accessible through publications and through the
    management of information by computers and
    computer networks” (Vocabulary.com, n.d.)
     is also called the Digital Age and the New Media Age  100 AD
    because it was associated with the development of
    computers. Book (parchment codex)

    JAMES R. MESSENGER
    “the Information Age is a true new age based upon the
    interconnection of computers via telecommunications, with
    these information systems operating on both a real-time  105 AD
    and as-needed basis. Furthermore, the primary factors
    driving this new age forward are convenience and user- Woodblock printing and
    friendliness which, in turn, will create user dependence.” paper was invented by
    the Chinese.
    HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
     3000 BC

    Sumerian writing system  1455


    used pictographs to
    present words. Johannes Gutenberg
    invented the printing
    press using movable
     2900 BC

    Beginnings of Egyptian
     1755
    hieroglyphic writing.

    Samuel Johnson’s
    dictionary standardized
     1300 BC English spelling.

     1802

    Tortoise shell and oracle


    bone writing were used.

     500 BC

    The Library of Congress was


    Papyrus roll was used. established.

    Invention of the carbon arc lamp.


     1824
    Motion pictures
    special effects were
    Research on
    used.
    persistence of vision
    published.

     1830’s

    First visible design for a


    digital computer.

     1837

    Invention of the
    telegraph in Great
    Britain and the United
    States.

     1861

    Motion pictures were


    projected onto a
    screen.

     1876

    Dewey Decimal system


    was introduced.

     1877

    Eadweard Muybridge
    demonstrated high-
    speed photography.

     1899

    First magnetic
    recordings were
    released.

     1902

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