THE INFORMATION AGE

CARLA D. NEUSANA
GRADE 12 STEM
WHAT IS THE INFORMATION AGE?
• The industrial revolution, which began in britain in the 18th century.
Is the direct consequence of a major invention, the steam engine.
Its use in the factories gave rise to the manufacturing economy and
to a new set of class relations, the capitalist and working class.
•The internet arose in 1969, but was in 1989 when fully
developed world wide web arose and turned it into the
global platform for knowledge-sharing, communication, and
archiving. A parallel development was the rise of a
knowledge economy characterized by production and
consumption of products that were generated from
intellectual capital.
•The revitalized role of libraries in the production
of knowledge. The invention of the microform in
1945 allowed for the storage of bulky materials;
however, the technology would soon be
superseded by digital imaging, digital storage,
and digital modalities of transmission.
(AN EXCERPT FROM TOWARDS
KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES, A UNESCO
PUBLICATION,2005)
 KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES AS A SOURCE
OF DEVELOPMENT
•Knowledge societies are about capabilities to identify,
produce, process, transform, disseminate, and use
information to build and apply knowledge for human
development. they require an empowering social vision
that encompasses plurality, inclusion, solidarity, and
participation.
As emphasized by UNESCO during the first phase of the
world summit on the information society (wsis), the
concept of knowledge societies is more all embracing
and more conducive to empowerment than the concept
of technology and connectivity, which often dominates
debates on the information society.
Issues of technology and connectivity emphasize infrastructures
and governance of the network planet. They are clearly crucial,
but should not be viewed as an end in themselves. In other
words, the global information society is meaningful, only if it
favors the development of knowledge societies and sets itself
the goal of “tending towards human development based on
human rights”.
This objective is all the more vital since the third industrial
revolution- the revolution of the new technologies- and the new
phase of globalization that accompanies it have swept away
many familiar landmarks and accentuated the divisions between
rich and poor, and between industrialized and developing
countries, as well as within national communities. For UNESCO,
the construction of knowledge societies “opens the way to
humanization of the process of globalization”.
 WHAT IS THE INTERNET?
It is a vast chain of computer networks in which anyone
who has access to a computer with internet connection
can publish their documents. All of these networks are
linked together via digital technology. Thus, the internet
allows transmission of a variety of file types, both written
and no-written multimedia.
Sites can be searched or even remembered
(bookmarked, as the case is) through its own address
called Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Each part of a
URL provides information about the web page. If you
type in the address bar of your search engine, you will
then be directed to that page.
WHO PUT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET?
There are many kinds of internet sites that you might find
during the course of a search—sites created by different
people or organizations with different objectives. The
three- letter code presented by a dot (.), simply known
as the domain, gives you a fairly good idea of who is
publishing the internet site.
 DOMAIN NAMES AND THEIR EQUIVALENT
.edu Educational institution
It may contain carefully
processed and reviewed information though it
may not represent the individual views of the
academic personnel.
.com Mostly commercial entities, some of which are profit
oriented

.org Non-profit organizations

.gov Government organizations

.net Internet service providers

THANK YOU,
KHUP KHUN KHA,
XIE XIE,
KAMSAHAMNIDA,
DANKA,
SALAMAT