Information Age

Francis Njoh 2nd Draft 2 Information Age In the world where we live, everything is constantly changing In the past two decades, we have evolved from technology to mini-trashy size mobile phone and GPS system. Give way to anywhere in the world. At first glance, technology is changing. The world is constantly evolving, the way we work at home, at work, and at school is changing. Computers in the classroom are getting more and more familiar. This is indispensable to the classroom.

So for me, it is a networked computer that defines the age of information. Other definitions in the information age are much broader, including fax machines, cell phones, computer applications not connected to the network, and other information technologies such as a few intranets. Clearly there are other aspects in the information age, but network computers will be the focus of this article. I did not use this parallel for the first time. A couple of years ago, a colleague Norm Shapiro first proposed a difference in communication quality represented by network computers. This difference is currently the point of discussion that is widely shared in the discussion of networked computers. Some authors also state that printing machines are historical basins that are similar to the information age. In addition, at least one author made a substantial comparison between the press and the network.

The information age is also closely related to the emergence of personal computers, also called computer age, digital era and new media era, but many computer historians go back to American mathematician Claude E. Shannon's work I will. At the age of 32, as a researcher at Bell Labs, Shannon announced a groundbreaking paper recommending quantitative coding of a series of zero and zero information. Shannon is known as the "father of information theory" and shows how this single framework can be used to transmit all information media from telephone signals to radio waves, televisions and errors.