LESSON 1

THE DIGITAL AGE

LIVING IN THE IT ERA
LESSON OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
• Describe when the information age took place.
• Identify the important people and their contributions to the information
age.
• Explain how the internet and the information
age play an important role in our society today.
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GETTING STARTED
Choose only one of these prominent social media influencers below by encircling
their name and then answer the following question.
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HOW WERE YOU

AFFECTED BY YOUR
CHOSEN
INFLUENCER?
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THE DIGITAL AGE
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IMAGINE, WHAT IF WE ALL LIVE

IN A PLACE WHERE
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
SUCH AS THE INTERNET AND
PHONES ARE NONEXISTENT?
WHAT COULD LIFE BE?
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SHARING AND COMMUNICATION

THROUGH THE AGES
 THE DIGITAL AGE 30,000 years before the common era, the most efficient form of communication for 8
man was through cave paintings and stone carvings. the transmission of the first
television signal by a Scottish man
From carrier pigeons to marathon men, it was 1876, Alexander Graham Bell named John Baird in 1927
the year 530 BCE when Ancient Greeks ran all created the electric telephone.
the way from 1997 the coming of instant
Marathon to Athens, simply to announce the messaging or internet chat
victory of Greek over Persia.
1840, the telegraph was invented
by Samuel Morse, making long-
distance communication very
much feasible.

More than 2000 years later,

after the invention of paper
came the first daily 1969 marked the beginning
of a new age (ARPANET)
newspaper,
the “Einkommende Zeitung”
in 1650.

776 BCE, pigeons were utilized by 1902, Italian Guglielmo

Ancient Greeks to deliver messages. Marconi transmits the
first radio signal 1994 came the emergence
of the world wide web
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WHAT EXACTLY IS THE

INFORMATION AGE?
The Information Age, also called the Computer Age, the Digital Age and
the New Media Age, is coupled tightly with the advent of personal
computers, but many computer historians trace its beginnings to the work
of the American mathematician Claude E. Shannon. At age 32 and as a
researcher at Bell Laboratories, Shannon published a landmark paper
proposing that information can be quantitatively encoded as a series of
ones and zeroes
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CLAUDE E. SHANNO
• At age 32 and as a researcher at Bell Laboratories, Shannon
published a landmark paper proposing that information can be
quantitatively encoded as a series of ones and zeroes.
• Known as the "father of Information Theory”
• Shannon showed how all information media, from telephone
signals to radio waves to television, could be transmitted
without error using this single framework.
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THE AREA OF EFFECTS

OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE WORLD OF
INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
• Information technology is evolving rapidly, enabling ever-
increasing amounts of information and data to be stored,
managed, enhanced, analyzed, and accessed through a wide
array of devices in various media formats.
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THE AREA OF EFFECTS

OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE WORLD OF
INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enables
the creation and modification of information and knowledge
products by remotely connected individuals and teams.
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THE AREA OF EFFECTS

OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE WORLD OF
INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
• The emergence of intelligent information technologies and
the development of sophisticated modeling and simulation
capabilities are transforming the world of information and
knowledge, with potentially profound effects on society.
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INVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS OF THE

INFORMATION AGE
There were many different inventions that came about because
of the Information Age, one of which was the computer. The
Internet allowed people to access information with the touch of
a button.

People can do everything online; shopping, communicating, bill

paying,
working, education, entertainment, even ordering food. This
may be good, but it has also made us a very lazy and
uneducated society.
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INVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS OF THE

INFORMATION AGE
Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are several
important people of the Information Age. Berners-Lee created
the World Wide Web. Jobs who was created the first effective
personal computer called the Apple 1.
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THE APPLE 1

The Apple 1 was a huge advancement in computer sciences and

it carved the path for the computers we have now. Apple has
created iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac, and Apple TV.
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BILL GATES

Gates is also a huge force in the Information Age. He founded

Microsoft, which creates almost everything that has to do with
computers. Microsoft develops programs like Microsoft Office,
Windows, and many other influential products.
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EXERCISE

Based on what you have read so far, complete the table below.
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THE INTERNET AND THE INFORMATION AGE

The Internet has revolutionized communications, to the extent

that it is now the preferred medium of everyday communication.
In almost everything people do; they use the Internet. Ordering
a pizza, buying a television, sharing a moment with a friend,
sending a picture over instant messaging.
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THE INTERNET AND THE INFORMATION AGE

Before the Internet, if you wanted to keep up with the news, you
had to walk down to the newsstand when it opened in the
morning and buy a local edition reporting what had happened
the previous day. But today a click or two is enough to read your
local paper and any news source from anywhere in the world,
updated up to the minute.
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THE INTERNET AND THE INFORMATION AGE

On a side note, it has made people lazier, but it also makes a

large amount of the population smarter. People are becoming
more mature and more educated due to things like the computer
and the Internet. This time period has reshaped governments,
with new technology being created every day. Because of things
like the Internet, new laws had to be put in place to stop
hacking, piracy, and identity theft.
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IMPACTS OF THE INFORMATION AGE

• The Information Age brought about many new inventions

and innovations. Many communication services like texting,
email, and social media developed and the world has not
been the same since.
• There are people in the world that believe they can live their
entire life through the Internet. Also, huge criminal
organizations rely on hacking into government systems and
obtaining confidential information to continue their way of
life.
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IMPACTS OF THE INFORMATION AGE

• Jobs have also become easier, and some jobs can even be
done from the comfort of your own home. The Information
Age is also known as the Age of Entrepreneurship.
• Now entrepreneurs can start and run a company easier than
ever before. It also impacts the work ethics by distracting
people and causing them to lose interest in the task they are
doing.
• This time period has also created a shortage of jobs and
making many jobs obsolete because machines are now being
used to do the work humans once did.
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SUMMARY
• The Information Age has changed people, technology, science, economies, culture,
and even the way people think.
• The Internet is arguably the most prominent innovation of the Information Age. The
Internet changed the way people
do everything.
• The Information Age has made industrial countries stronger. With online companies
being some of the most
successful and economically stimulating businesses out there, economies receive more
from them and keep our
world turning.
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