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The document discusses the evolution of communication technologies through different eras: pre-industrial, industrial, electronic, and information age. It provides examples of early communication tools like cave paintings and clay tablets. During the industrial age, inventions like the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and radio improved communication. The electronic age brought transistors and computers. Now in the information age, digital technologies like YouTube, Facebook, laptops, Google and Microsoft dominate communication through sharing of voice, images, sound and data online and via mobile devices.

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2 Information Age

The document discusses the evolution of communication technologies through different eras: pre-industrial, industrial, electronic, and information age. It provides examples of early communication tools like cave paintings and clay tablets. During the industrial age, inventions like the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and radio improved communication. The electronic age brought transistors and computers. Now in the information age, digital technologies like YouTube, Facebook, laptops, Google and Microsoft dominate communication through sharing of voice, images, sound and data online and via mobile devices.

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“The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

If we want to change the world, we have to change our


thinking”. – Albert Einstein
INFORMATION AGE

 Also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, New Media Age, Internet Age
 a historic period in the 21st century
 characterized by the rapid epochal shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought
through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.

Early Developments of Information Age

 1945- Fremont Rider described the miniaturized microform analog photographs, which could be duplicated
on-demand for library patrons and other institutions.
 1965- Moore’s law was formulated. It is an observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated
circuit doubles about every two years.
 Early 1980s- production of the smaller and less expensive personal computers allowed for direct access to
information.
 1995- Nicholas Negroponte published his book, Being Digital, the similarities and differences between
products made of atoms and bits.

1. Primary Information Age- newspaper, radio, television.


2. Secondary Information Age- Internet, satellite television and mobile phones
3. Tertiary Information Age- emerged by media of the Primary Information Age interconnected with media of
the Secondary Information Age.
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1. Pre-industrial Age- a time before there were machines and tools to help them perform the tasks. About 2.5
million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone
tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, and bury their dead. Communications were limited
between communities. People used traditional paper and writing materials, signs or symbols to communicate
with each other. For example, Egyptians used papyrus scrolls. Sumerians used clay tablets, pre-historic men
used hand stencils and simple geometric shapes to create art on the walls of caves and Johannes Gutenberg
invented the printing press during Renaissance period.

Examples:
 Cave paintings (3500 BC)
 and Clay Tables (2400 BC)

2. Industrial Age- is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that
began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the
replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine,
and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.

Communication during the Industrial Age:

 Samuel F.B Morse invented the telegraph which became the standard for international
communication with a modified code.
 Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone, an electric tool transmitting analogue speech along
wires.
 Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of
sound.
 Heinrich Hertz identified and studied radio waves in 1886.
 Guiglielmo Marconi developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers.
 Philo Farnsworth invented the first fully electronic television. It became an important mass medium
for advertising, propaganda and entertainment.

3. Electronic Age began when electronic equipment and large technologies, including computers came into use.
The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that
led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age, long distance
communication became more efficient.
Transistor led to the creation of other media tool.

 Enigma machine is a piece of spook hardware used as a way of deciphering German signals traffic
during World War Two.
 Transisor radio became the most popular electronic communication and device in history.
 EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) is considered to be the first stored
program electronic computer.
 ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) as the first electronic general purpose
digital computer.
 UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) is a line of electronic digital stored-program computers.
 IBM is the first mass produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware.
 Hewlett Packard 9100A is an early computer or programmable calculator
 Floppy disk is a removal magnetic storage medium.
 Walkman is originally used for portable audio cassette players.

4. Information Age-People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers,
mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now
living in the information age.

 You tube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. It is an online video-sharing
platform. It also allows users to view, upload, share, report, subscribe and comments on videos.
 Facebook Inc. was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow roommates and students. It is a
popular global social networking website. It also offers other products and services such as Facebook
Messenger, Facebook Watch and Facebook Portal.
 MacBook is a discontinued Macintosh portable computer developed and sold by Apple Inc. It
includes a Retina display, fanless design and a shallower butterfly keyboard and a single USB-C port
for power and data.
 Google LLC is based on multinational technology company that specializes in internet-related
services and products, which include sottware, hardware, online advertising, a search engine and cloud
computing
 Microsoft Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software,
consumer electronics, personal computers and related services.

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