THE

INFORMATION
AGE
THE INFORMATION AGE
The Information Age is 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.)
 HISTORY

3000 BC 2900 BC 1300 BC 500 BC 220 BC 100 AD 105 AD 1455 1755 1802

1824 1830 1837 1861 1876 1877 1899 1902 1906 1923

1926 1939 1940 1945 1946 1948 1957 1958 1960 1969

1979 1972 1974 1975 1977 1984 MID 1987 1991 JANUARY
1980s 1977
HISTORY
3000 BC
Sumerian writing system
used pictographs to
represent words

2900 BC 1300 BC 500 BC 220 BC 100 BC 105 BC 1455 1755 1802

 HISTORY
2900 BC

Beginnings of Egyptian
hieroglyphic writing.

3000 BC 1300 BC 500 BC 220 BC 100 BC 105 BC 1455 1755 1802

 HISTORY
1300 BC
Tortoise shell and oracle
bone writing were used.

3000 BC 2900 BC 500 BC 220 BC 100 BC 105 BC 1455 1755 1802

 HISTORY
500 BC
Papyrus roll was used.

3000 BC 2900 BC 1300 BC 220 BC 100 BC 105 BC 1455 1755 1802

 HISTORY
220 BC
Chinese small seal writing
was developed.

3000 BC 2900 BC 1300 BC 500 BC 100 BC 105 BC 1455 1755 1802

 HISTORY
100 AD
Book (parchment codex).

3000 BC 2900 BC 1300 BC 500 BC 220 BC 105 BC 1455 1755 1802

 HISTORY
105 AD
Woodblock printing and
paper was invented by the
Chinese.

3000 BC 2900 BC 1300 BC 500 BC 220 BC 100 BC 1455 1755 1802

 HISTORY
1445
Johannes Gutenberg
invented the printing press
using movable metal type.

3000 BC 2900 BC 1300 BC 500 BC 220 BC 100 AD 105 AD 1755 1802

 HISTORY
1755
Samuel Johnson’s dictionary
standardized English
Spelling.

3000 BC 2900 BC 1300 BC 500 BC 220 BC 100 AD 105 AD 1445 1802

 HISTORY
1802
• The Library of Congress
was established.
• Invention of the carbon arc
lamp

3000 BC 2900 BC 1300 BC 500 BC 220 BC 100 AD 105 AD 1445 1755

HISTORY
1824
Research on persistence of
vision published.

1830 1837 1861 1876 1877 1899 1902 1906 1923

 HISTORY
1830s
• First viable design for a
digital computer.
• Augusta Lady Byron writes
the world’s first computer
program.

1824 1837 1861 1876 1877 1899 1902 1906 1923

 HISTORY
1837
Invention of the telegraph in
Great Britain and the United
States.

1824 1830s 1861 1876 1877 1899 1902 1906 1923

 HISTORY
1861
Motion Pictures were
projected onto a screen

1824 1830s 1837 1876 1877 1899 1902 1906 1923

 HISTORY
1876
Dewey Decimal system
was introduced.

1824 1830s 1837 1861 1877 1899 1902 1906 1923

 HISTORY
1877
Eadweard Muybridge
demonstrated the high-
speed photography.

1824 1830s 1837 1861 1876 1899 1902 1906 1923

 HISTORY
1899
First magnetic recordings
were released.

1824 1830s 1837 1861 1876 1877 1902 1906 1923

 HISTORY
1902
Motion picture special
effects were used.

1824 1830s 1837 1861 1876 1877 1899 1906 1923

 HISTORY
1906
Lee DeForest invented the
electronic amplifying tube
(triode).

1824 1830s 1837 1861 1876 1877 1899 1902 1923

 HISTORY
1923
Television camera tube was
invented

1824 1830s 1837 1861 1876 1877 1899 1902 1906

HISTORY
1926
First practical sound movie

1939 1940 1945 1946 1948 1957 1958 1960 1969

 HISTORY
1939
Regularly scheduled
television broadcasting
began in the US

1926 1940 1945 1946 1948 1957 1958 1960 1969

 HISTORY
1940s
Beginnings of information
science as a discipline

1926 1939 1945 1946 1948 1957 1958 1960 1969

 HISTORY
1945
Vannevar Bush foresaw
the invention of
hypertext.

1926 1939 1940s 1946 1948 1957 1958 1960 1969

 HISTORY
1946
ENIAC computer was
developed

1926 1939 1940s 1945 1948 1957 1958 1960 1969

 HISTORY
1948
Birth of field-of-
information theory
proposed by Claude E.
Shannon.

1926 1939 1940s 1945 1946 1957 1958 1960 1969

 HISTORY
1957
Planar transistor was
developed by Jean
Hoerni.

1926 1939 1940s 1945 1946 1948 1958 1960 1969

 HISTORY
1958
First integrated circuit

1926 1939 1940s 1945 1946 1948 1957 1960 1969

 HISTORY
1960s
Library of Congress
developed LC MARC
(machine readable code)

1926 1939 1940s 1945 1946 1948 1957 1958 1969

 HISTORY
1969
UNIX operating system
was developed, which
could handle
multitasking.

1926 1939 1940s 1945 1946 1948 1957 1958 1960s

 HISTORY
1969
UNIX operating system
was developed, which
could handle
multitasking.

1979 1972 1974 1975 1977 1984 MID 1987 1991 JANUARY
1980s 1977
HISTORY
1971
Intel introduced the first
microprocessor chip.

1972 1974 1975 1977 1984 MID 1980s 1987 1991 JANUARY1977
 HISTORY
1972
Optical laserdisc was
developed by Philips and
MCA.

1971 1974 1975 1977 1984 MID 1980s 1987 1991 JANUARY1977
 HISTORY
1974
MCA and Philips agreed
on a standard videodisc
encoding format.

1971 1972 1975 1977 1984 MID 1980s 1987 1991 JANUARY1977
 HISTORY
1975
Altair Microcomputer Kit
was released: first
personal computer for
the public.

1971 1972 1974 1977 1984 MID 1980s 1987 1991 JANUARY1977
 HISTORY
1977
RadioShack introduced
the first complete
personal computer.

1971 1972 1974 1975 1984 MID 1980s 1987 1991 JANUARY1977
 HISTORY
1984
Apple Machintosh
computer was introduced.

1971 1972 1974 1975 1977 MID 1980s 1987 1991 JANUARY1977
 HISTORY
MID 1980s
Artificial Intelligence was
separated from
information science.

1971 1972 1974 1975 1977 1984 1987 1991 JANUARY1977

 HISTORY
1987
Hypercard was developed
by Bill Atkinson recipe
box metaphor.

1971 1972 1974 1975 1977 MID 1980s

1984 1991 JANUARY1977
 HISTORY
1991
Four hundred fifty
complete works of
literature on one CD-
ROM was released.

1971 1972 1974 1975 1977 1984 MID 1980s 1987 JANUARY1977
 HISTORY
JANUARY1977
RSA (encryption and
network security
software) Internet
security code cracked
for a 48-bit number.

1971 1972 1974 1975 1977 1984 MID 1980s 1987 1991
TRUTHS OF THE
INFORMATION AGE
• Information must compete
• Newer is a viewpoint
• Selection is a viewpoint
• Information is driven by cultural
priorities
• The early word gets perm
• You are what you eat and so is your
brain
• Anything in great demand will be
counterfeited.
• Ideas are seen as controversial.
• Undead information walks ever on.
COMPUTER
 Are important contributions
of advances in the
Information Age to society.
 It is an electronic device
that stores and processes
data(information)
 TYPES OF COMPUTER

PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC) DESKTOP COMPUTER LAPTOP

PERSONAL DIGITAL WEARABLE

SERVER MAINFRAMES
ASSISTANTS (PDA’s) COMPUTERS
TYPES OF COMPUTER
PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC)
Single user instrument.
First known as microcomputers
since the were a complete
computer but built on a smaller
scale than enormous systems
operated by most businesses.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
DESKTOP COMPUTER
 Described as PC that is not designed for
portability.
 Set up in a permanent spot

A workstation is simply a desktop computer

that has a more powerful processor, additional
memory, and enhanced capabilities for
performing special group of task such as 3d
graphics or game development
TYPES OF COMPUTER
LAPTOP
 These are portable computers
that integrate the essentials of a
desktop computer in a battery
powered package, which are
somewhat larger than a typical
hardcover book.
 Commonly called NOTEBOOKS
TYPES OF COMPUTER
PERSONAL DIGITAL
ASSISTANT (PDA’s)
 Tightly integrated computers that
usually no keypads and rely on
touch screen for user input.
 Typically, smaller than a
paperback, lightweight, and
battery-powered
TYPES OF COMPUTER
SERVER
 Refers to a computer that has
been improved to provide
network services to other
computer.
 Usually boast powerful
processors, tons of memory, and
large hard drives
TYPES OF COMPUTER
MAINFRAMES
 Huge computer systems that can
fill an entire room.
 Used especially by large firms to
describe the large, expensive
machine that process millions of
transactions everyday
 The word “mainframe” has been
replaced by ENTERPRISE
SERVER
TYPES OF COMPUTER

WEARABLE COMPUTERS
They involve materials that are
usually integrated into cellphones,
watches, and other small objects or
places.
WORLDWIDE WEB (INTERNET)

Claude E. Shannon
 Trace the origin of internet.
 An American Mathematician
who was considered as the
“Father of Information Theory”
WORLDWIDE WEB (INTERNET)

INTERNET
 is a worldwide system of
interconnected networks that
facilitates data transmission among
innumerable computers.
 Developed in the 1970s by the
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
 In early days, it is mainly used by
scientists to communicate with other
scientists.
 WORLDWIDE WEB
(INTERNET)
LARRY PAGE
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
 Directors of a Stanford research
project, built a search engine
named “GOOGLE” that listed
results to reflect page popularity.
 Launch their company in 1998
 GOOGLE is now the world’s SERGEY BRIN
most popular search engine,
accepting more than 200 million
queries daily.
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS
IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
SWISS – PROT
 the development of a consolidated
formal database of protein
sequence database.
 Initiated in 1986.
 Has now 70,000 protein sequences
from more than 5,000 model
organism, a small fraction of
unknown organisms
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS IN
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

BLAST
 One of the tool in protein
analysis which is commonly
for comparing sequences.
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS IN
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

ANNOTATOR
 An interactive genome
analysis tool.
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS IN
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

GeneFinder
 A tool to identify coding
regions and splice sites.
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