CHAPTER 8

INFORMATIO
N SOCIETY
 INFORMATION

• Words are made up of sound and yet they

transmit something more significant. They
transmit message.
• The word “informed” because they carry
“information”
( Chaisson 2006, Ben Naim 2015 )
 THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE
• For Ancient Greeks language was an object
worthy of administration. Words have power.

• The idea of comprehending words as more

than just combination of sounds led the Greek
to seek out the principles of everyday
language.
• Nevertheless, the same message will be
received by anyone. Words, therefore can
function across space and time without
reducing their meaning.

• Plato’s principle of “One and the Many”

refers to the underlying unity among diverse
beings in the natural world.

• In the 21st century, rich diversity in nature,

which technology has us to this cover.
(BANWA Natural Science, 2008)
 MATHEMATICS AS THE
LANGUAGE OF NATURE

• Technology in the Modern World is the Fruit of

Nature
• SCIENCE
Scientific Method helped people
discover how nature behaves.

• People can develop technology that uses

theses law and language for their benefits.
 TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD

• The ability to think and conceptually

comprehend nature and the principle it follow
eventually leads to science.
• IN ANCIENT TIMES

-Western thinkers harnessed the forces of

nature after understanding them better.
-Lost in antiquity is the first sailing
vessel that worked through the power of
the wind.
HERO OF ALEXANDRIA

•Heron Alexandrinus, otherwise known as the

Hero of Alexandria.
•For the instance would event a primitive steam
engine in the first century (Davies, 1990).
•1st century Greek mathematican and engineer
who is know as the first inventor was called
steam engine.
•His steam powered device was called the
aeolipile, named after Aiolos, God of the winds.
Ancient scribe working at his desk

The ancient invention of Steam Engine

THE PRINTING PRESS
AND BEYOND
• The ancient fascination with language gave rise to
the preservation of the words of earlier people at the
same time when the West weakened itself due to the
internecine warfare and conflicts. Throughout this
dark period, the importance of the word—the power
to be informed as a human being—led to the
transmission of ideas through hand-copying. From
this manual action would arise the technology that
would transform cultures—the printing press

• Using the printing press, people on, people on

different sides of the world could share their thoughts
and ideas with each other, forming communities of
thinkers across space and time (Connell, 1958)
• In the age of information, the transmission of
ideas has undergone changes. Meaning and depth
are no longer conveyed strictly by rhetoric but
rather by its electronic replacement, the digital
signal or digit. Such a digital world is a direct
offspring of the progressing world of technology
built upon the many advances in science (Toffler,
1984)
Illustrations of an old printing press
THE WORLD WIDE WEB
• A more modern example of technology feeding upon
itself is the 20th-centure tour de force: the World Wide
Web through the internet.

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented it as a way of

addressing data processing and information sharing
needs among scientists for the European Organization
for Nuclear Research (CERN).

• With the ease of sharing information at present, its

reliability becomes compromised. Anyone with a
connection to other people can produce contents
which are showing half-truths or even lies, giving rise
to disinformation.
• The easy access to personal information makes one
susceptible to online predation, identity theft, scamming,
among others.

• Considering the many benefits we get from these

technologies, we must also be responsible in utilizing them to
avoid harming others and ourselves.

The First Web Server

Sir Tim Bernes-Lee
Plate Where the Web was born