THE

INFORMATION AGE
 Digital Age

New Media
Age

Computer
Age

INFORMATION AGE
•period of history
wherein it is
described as an
economy based on
the computerization
of information
improved from the
Industrial Revolution
brought
Industrialization.
 Claude E. Shannon
American mathematician.
At age 32 and as a researcher at Bell
Laboratories,
"father of Information Theory,"
Showed how all information media, from
telephone signals to radio waves to
television, could be transmitted without
error using this single framework.
IMPACTS OF
COMPUTER AGE?
Without the information,
knowledge and discoveries of
those from the past, we would
not be where we are today. The
past has shaped our present
and will continue to shape our
future.
COMPUTER
• A programmable electronic device at high
speed, and display the results of these
operations

• designed to accept data, perform prescribed

mathematical and logical operations
10 TYPES
OF
1.PERSONAL COMPUTER
2.DESKTOP COMPUTER
3. LAPTOP
4. NETBOOK
5. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
6. WORKSTATION
7.SERVER
8.MAINFRAME
9.SUPERCOMPUTER
10.WEARABLE COMPUTER
 How Technology and
Social Media Has Changed
Our Lives?
How Do Mobile
Phones Affect Our
Lives?
The six (6) ways mobile has
changed our lives listed
below are just a few
examples of how mobile
affects each of us every
single day.
PUBLICATIONS

1.Access for
Everyone
3. A New Range of
Businesses
3.Personalized
Experiences
PUBLICATIONS

4.Mobile Technology
Creates the
“Everything” Device
5. The Ability to
Find Information
When You Need It
6. The Ever-Present
Distraction of Mobile
Technology
ANY QUESTIONS?
• The term cyberspace was coined
by William Gibson in his novel
Neuromancer (1984)
• to describe a futuristic computer
network into which users plug
their brains.
• (Cyber comes from the “cybernetics”, a
term coined in 1948 to apply to the
comparative study of automatic control
systems, such as the brain/nervous system
and mechanical-electrical communication
systems).
• Cyberspace is where you go when you go online
with your computer.
• The internet – “the mother of all
networks”
• internet the (“net”) is a worldwide
computer network that connects
hundreds of thousands of smaller
networks.
These networks link
educational, commercial,
nonprofit, and military entities,
as well as individuals
• World Wide Web, often called
simply the “web” – an
interconnected system of internet
computers (called servers) that
support especially formatted
documents in multimedia form.
• The word multimedia, from the
“multiple media”, refers to
technology that presents
information in more than one
medium, such as text, still
images, moving images, and
sound.