Information Age

Intended Learning Outcomes:

1. Trace the development of the information age from the
introduction of Gutenberge’s press up to the era of social
media;
2. Determine the impacts of the information age in society;
and
3. Analyze the ways in which the information age and social
media influence human lives.
What is Information Age?
• The information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital
Age, or New Media Age) is a historical period that began in the
mid-20th century, characterized by a rapid epochal shift from
traditional industry established by the Industrial Revolution to
an economy primarily based upon information technology.
• The onset of the Information Age has been associated with the
development of the transistor in 1947 and optical amplifier in
1957, the basis of computing and fiber optic communication.
Example;

• A laptop connects to the internet to display

information form Wikipedia: sharing
information between computer is a hallmark
of the Information Age.
• invented the printing press around 1440. this
invention was a result of finding a way to improve the
manual, tedious, and slow printing methods.
• A printing press is a device that applies pressure to an
inked surface lying on a print medium, such as cloth
or paper, to transfer ink.
• Gutenberge’s hand mould printing press led to the
creation of metal movable type. The two inventions
were combined to make printing methods faster and
they drastically reduced the costs of printing
documents.
• With the rise of the printing press, the printing revolutions occurred
which illustrated the tremendous social change brought by the wide
circulation of information. The printing press made the mass
production of books possible which made books accessible not only to
the upper class.
• The development of a fast and easy way of disseminating information
in print permanently reformed the structured of society. Political and
religions authorities who took pride in being learned were threatened
by the sudden rise of Literacy among people.
 Enigma German code
device
•Is a device used by the German military command to encode strategic messages
before and during World War II. The Enigma code was first broken by the
Poles, under the leadership of mathematician Marian Rejowski, in the early
1930s
•In 1939, with the growing likelihood of a German invasion, the poles turned
their information over to the british, who set up a secret code- breaking group
known as Ultra, under mathematician Alan M. Turing.
•And also Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early to
mid 20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic and military
communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi German during World
War II, in all branches of the German military.
• Alan Turing, in full Alan Mathison Turing is an English
mathematician and logician who made major
contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis, logic,
philosophy, and mathematical biology and also to the new
areas later named computer science, cognitive science,
artificial intelligence and artificial life.
• Turing, working on the side of the Allies, invented
Bombe, an electromechanical machine that enable the
British to decipher encrypted messages of the German
Enigma Machine.
Apple Computer 1
• Originally released as the Apple Computer and known later as the Apple 1,
or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer
Company in 1976. it was designed by Steve Wozniak.
• Wozniak designed the operating system, hardware, and circuit board of the
computer all by himself.
• The Apple 1 was Apple’s first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs
sold his only motorized means transportation, a VW Microbus, for a few
hundred dollars, and Wozniak sold his HP -65 Calculator for $500.
• The idea of selling the Computer came from Wozniak’s friend and co-
founder Steve Jobs.
• From 1973 onward social , media platforms were introduced from
variations of multi-user chat rooms, instant messaging applications,
bulletin-board forum systems, game-based social networking sites and
business- oriented social networking websites, messaging, video and
voice calling services, blogging platform, image and video hosting
websites, discovery and dating-oriented websites, video sharing
services, real time social media feed aggregator, live streaming,
photo- video sharing websites and question and answer platforms.
• To date, these social media platforms enable information exchange at
its most efficient level.
Group 6
• Mana-ay, John Thomas
• Marines, Terence Rico
• Olais, Jeremy
• Murillo, Kenneth
• Nadela, Kimberly Ann
Thank You!