Information Society

By Prof. Liwayway Memije-Cruz

Technology as a source of information

• Do they all provide

information or just
noise?
• How can we be sure
that technology
share knowledge
and truth?
What is information?
 Information
• facts about a situation,
person, event, etc.:
• facts provided or
learned about
something or
someone.
• what is conveyed or
represented by a
particular
arrangement or
sequence of things.
• communicate
meaning
Human’s quest for understanding the natural
world was first done through naming and
classifying objects.
THE POWER OF WORDS AND
LANGUAGE
Questions to ponder?
• How is it possible that one’s idea can
simultaneously exists in one’s mind and in
another?
• How is it possible that human beings can
communicate through words and thus form a
community?
• Does the power of communicated words come
from the speaker, who is the thinker and the
source, or from the listener, who is the recipient
of the communication?
The scientific search for truth recognized the
usefulness of language and the ability it gave
to make sense of nature.
Words can function across space and time
without reducing their meaning.
Thinking in terms of a common system being
generated by a speaker and received by the
listener is useful in the pursuit of knowledge.
The Role of Language in the quest

• mainly used for linguistic

communication.
• basis of human progress.
• central to ones identity as an
individual
• as a marker of a social group.
MATHEMATICS AS THE LANGUAGE
OF NATURE
Technology in the modern world is the fruit
of science.
Since people have discovered the laws and language of
nature, they can develop technology that uses these
laws and languages for their benefits. This is
mathematics, the great contribution of Isaac Newton.
 Sir Isaac Newton
English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who
is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time,
and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
Mathematics is the study of pattern
and structure.
Mathematics is fundamental to the physical and biological
sciences, engineering and information technology, to
economics and increasingly to the social sciences.
Mathematics in our World
Mathematics in our World
Looking at simple things deeply,
finding a pattern, and using the
pattern to gain new insights
provides great value.
Technological World
• describes a
world that is
based in
science and
applied to
everyday life
to solve
problems.
• Technology is taking over our world, we live in
an age where most, if not all of us use
technological devices all day, everyday. From
mobile phones, to iPads, to laptops and TVs,
we’re constantly using technology. There are
even forms of technology that we use during our
sleep, fitness watches that track our sleep and
the likes.
The Printing Press
• preservation of words.
• transform cultures
• its development in 15th
Century is regarded as
the beginning of a true
revolution.
• allowed words and
scientific ideas to
establish a view of
nature anchored in
scholarly works and
studies.
Johannes Gutenberg
• a German
blacksmith,
goldsmith,
inventor, printer,
and publisher who
introduced
printing to Europe
with the printing
press.
Information Age
• began around the 1970s and is still going on
today. It is also known as the Computer Age,
Digital Age, or New Media Age. This era
brought about a time period in which people
could access information and knowledge easily.
• a historic period in the 21st century
characterized by the rapid shift from traditional
industry that the Industrial Revolution brought
through industrialization, to an economy based
on information technology.
The World Wide Web
www
• (WWW) is combination of all resources and
users on the Internet that are using the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). A broader
definition comes from the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C): "The World Wide Web is
the universe of network-accessible information,
an embodiment of human knowledge.“
• A way of addressing data processing and
information sharing needs among scientists for
the European Organization for Nuclear
Research.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
• English engineer
and computer
scientist, best
known as the
inventor of the
World Wide
Web.
Assignment
• Social media also poses certain risks
especially in the dissemination of false
information. As a student, how will you
use social media to ensure that you do
not propagate inaccurate and
unreliable information?
References:
• http://www.clarityoneaudio.com/living-
technological-world-negative-positive-effects-
know/
• https://historyoftechnologyif.weebly.com/informa
tion-age.html
• https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printin
g-press
• https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-
sequence.html