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    The document outlines learning outcomes related to understanding the human and social impacts of developments in the information age, discussing the evolution of technology from ancient times to the present, and illustrating how social media has affected lives. It provides background on the information age and how information has become effortlessly accessible through publications and computer networks, focusing on information itself and how advances in electronics and computers have made information a key commodity. The rise of the information age is discussed in relation to changes in communication, work, and globalization as well as some problems that have emerged like privacy issues and overuse of computers hindering intellectual development.

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    The document outlines learning outcomes related to understanding the human and social impacts of developments in the information age, discussing the evolution of technology from ancient times to the present, and illustrating how social media has affected lives. It provides background on the information age and how information has become effortlessly accessible through publications and computer networks, focusing on information itself and how advances in electronics and computers have made information a key commodity. The rise of the information age is discussed in relation to changes in communication, work, and globalization as well as some problems that have emerged like privacy issues and overuse of computers hindering intellectual development.

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    The document outlines learning outcomes related to understanding the human and social impacts of developments in the information age, discussing the evolution of technology from ancient times to the present, and illustrating how social media has affected lives. It provides background on the information age and how information has become effortlessly accessible through publications and computer networks, focusing on information itself and how advances in electronics and computers have made information a key commodity. The rise of the information age is discussed in relation to changes in communication, work, and globalization as well as some problems that have emerged like privacy issues and overuse of computers hindering intellectual development.

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    The document outlines learning outcomes related to understanding the human and social impacts of developments in the information age, discussing the evolution of technology from ancient times to the present, and illustrating how social media has affected lives. It provides background on the information age and how information has become effortlessly accessible through publications and computer networks, focusing on information itself and how advances in electronics and computers have made information a key commodity. The rise of the information age is discussed in relation to changes in communication, work, and globalization as well as some problems that have emerged like privacy issues and overuse of computers hindering intellectual development.

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    LEARNING OUTCOMES

    0 To determine the human and social impacts of the


    developments in the information age.
    0 To discuss the evolution of technology from the
    ancient times up to the present.
    0 To illustrate how social media have affected their
    lives.
    The Information Age (Digital Age)
    0 When was the last time you used something
    digital?
    The Information Age (Digital Age)
    0 Also called the New Media Age
    0 A period starting in the last quarter of the 20th century
    when information became effortlessly accessible
    through publications and through the management of
    information by computers and computer networks
    The Information Age
    0 The focus of S&T and society became
    “information” itself (handling and
    conveying it)
    0 Progress in electronics and computers
    caused information to be one of the
    most important commodities
    0 Advances in biology
     Genetics – revolution in information
    science (recombinant DNA)
     The immune system – also an
    information processing system

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Information & society
    BEFORE NOW
     During Galileo’s and Newton’s time,  Today, the human mind is pictured as
    people were viewed as complicated a complicated computer
    mechanical machines
     Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander  Steven Jobs and William Henry Gates
    Graham Bell, and Henry Ford III
     Screw and bolt in the Industrial era  Microchip (inventors were awarded a
    Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000)
     Majority of labor force was into  Majority are engaged in supply of
    manufacturing of goods services

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Information & globalization
    0 Communication worldwide
    became cheap (with new phone
    systems and Internet)
    0 Changed the way people work
    Information-based work
    Business trends
    Global banking
    Scientific enterprise/research

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Problems with Information age
    0 Infringement of personal privacy
    0 Excessive use of computers in
    teaching young children may
    impoverish the development of
    intellectual capabilities
    “Knowledge” is replaced by mere
    “data”
    Ideas contain data, but data contain
    no ideas

    Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
    Facts on the Information age
    0 Information must compete.
    0 Newer is equated with truer.
    0 Selection is a viewpoint.
    0 The media sells what the culture buys.
    0 The early word gets the perm.
    0 You are what you eat and so is your brain.
    0 Anything in great demand will be counterfeited.
    0 Ideas are seen as controversial.
    0 Undead information walks ever on.
    0 Media presence creates the story.
    0 The medium selects the message.
    0 The whole truth is a pursuit.

    Serafica et al. Science, Technology, and Society. Rex Bookstore. Manila, Philippines. 2018
    Reflection:
    Social media poses certain risks especially in the dissemination of
    false information. [As a student], how will you use social media to
    ensure that you do not propagate inaccurate and unreliable
    information?
    What brought us here?
    History of Information
    0 “in form” – what we are
    “What makes a tree a tree? And not
    cement?”
    0 For 2000 years, explanation/answers
    were based on the head (natural
    philosophy/reason)
    0 Oral tradition – fascination with sounds
    and words
    0 Print and written culture – printing press
    0 World Wide Web
    History of Information age
    0 Alan Turing broke the Nazi code
    0 Developed the concept of
    computers
    Group Activity: Hacking
    Background: A substitution cypher is a method of encrypting a message in
    which the letters of a plaintext are replaced with different ones in
    systematic manner. In a simple substitution, the codes may simply be a
    rotated or shifted alphabet.

    Instruction: Each group should make its own code message composed
    of no more than 50 words by using simple substitution. Afterwards,
    exchange messages with the other groups. The first group that decodes the
    message wins.
    Artificial intelligence
    0 use of machines to imitate the way humans think and behave
    0 replicate in a computer the actions and functions of biological
    neurons found in the human body
    0 VIDEOS_MVE\Logic by Machine (1962).mp4
    0 VIDEOS_MVE\Artificial Intelligence
    (2001)\Artificial.Intelligence.2001.mp4
    Reflection:
    Can machines/computers replace the human mind?

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