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Information Age

The document summarizes key developments in communication technology from ancient times to the modern information age. It describes: 1) Early forms of written communication including Egyptian hieroglyphs, Phoenician and Glagolithic alphabets that eventually led to the widespread Latin alphabet. 2) Major innovations like the printing press, gunpowder, compass, and paper that enabled the Scientific Revolution and changes to government and industry. 3) Inventions of the typewriter, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and early social media that revolutionized long-distance communication and mass media/entertainment. 4) How each new technology initially created new jobs and opportunities before new innovations improved upon the original inventions

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Information Age

The document summarizes key developments in communication technology from ancient times to the modern information age. It describes: 1) Early forms of written communication including Egyptian hieroglyphs, Phoenician and Glagolithic alphabets that eventually led to the widespread Latin alphabet. 2) Major innovations like the printing press, gunpowder, compass, and paper that enabled the Scientific Revolution and changes to government and industry. 3) Inventions of the typewriter, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and early social media that revolutionized long-distance communication and mass media/entertainment. 4) How each new technology initially created new jobs and opportunities before new innovations improved upon the original inventions

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INFORMATION AGE

Communication
• a process by which information is exchanged
between individuals through a common system of
symbols, signs, or behavior
Problem – localized communication
Egyptian Alphabet

Phoenician Alphabet
Glagolytic alphabet

Latin Alphabet
Effect of printing press
• Humanism- a doctrine, attitude, or way
of life centered on human interests or
values
• People began to write realistic books
and not just religious stories.
• Scientific Revolution – scientists like
Galileo, Copernicus, and
Sir Isaac Newton.
• discoveries of modern tools, inventions
and innovations such as inventions of
paper, printing press, gunpowder and
compass
• Change of government system -decline
of Feudal system
• The Industrial Revolution - changes in
agriculture, manufacturing, mining,
transportation, and technology.
John Pratt

inventor of first practical typewriter


Christopher Latham Sholes
• an American inventor
who invented the
QWERTY keyboard
• contended as one of the
inventors of the first
typewriter in the United
States
• He was also a
newspaper publisher
and politician
Effect of typewriter
• Creates job for women
• Easy for writers to create more books
• Encourage inventors to improve
typewriter
Samuel Morse• Harnessing of electricity gave
birth to electric telegraph.
• It is the most popular long
distance communication
• U.S. discontinued in the year
2004
India’s BSNL owned telegraph
service ended by 2013
• It is the world’s last existing
true commercial telegraph

• the artist who invented


the Morse code
Morse Code Telegraph
What is a Telegraph
-video-
Effect of telegraph

• To send and receive messages at


unprecedented speed and volume.
• It helped the military communicate
Inventor of radio
Effect of radio
• It allows entertainment and becomes a
platform for musicians
• Broadcast new or current affairs
• Promotes program for educational
purposes
• Use for advertisement
Philo Farnsworth

CATHODE RAY
TUBE
History of Social Media
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Video on Technology Addiction
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