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Chapter 2: The Information Explosion
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Chapter 2: The Information Explosion
Major Milestones
Telecommunications: The umbrella term for all communications technologies that transmit information electronically over vast distances.
Obsolescence: Out-of-date and unusable.
The printing press is invented by Johannes Gutenberg. Fifty years later, 20 million books had been printed. The age of mass media had been born.
People now began to read and a revolution occurred. People were able to spread their thoughts and ideas around the world. By 1800, magazines, journals, newspapers, and books were all available to everybody, not just the elite of society.
1450 AD
1896
Auguste and Louis Lumiere invented the first projected motion pictures, or movies. Their first movies were black and white, silent, and only 20 seconds long. People were so shocked by early movies that they thought they were real. In "Train Arriving at a Station", a film that showed a train towards the screen, created a panic because people thought the train was actually coming at them. People fled the theater in terror.
1830
William Talbot invents photography.
Resolution: The visual quality of an image. The more crisp and defined the image, the higher its resolution.
1893
1893: Edison invented the kinetoscope, which is the first commercial motion-picture machine.
1500 AD
Alphabet writing begins. The most powerful in society wrote in this time period.
They kept economic records, laws, religious records, and historic records. Only people in government and higher-ups in church knew how to read or write.
1844
Information was only delivered by foot, horseback, boat, or train until Samuel B. Morse invents the telegraph and the ‘Morse code.’ Using electricity, Morse could send messages, as beeps, in seconds over long distances.
1877
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. This invention allowed the recording of low-fidelity, or one sound, and its playback.
4000 B. C.
6000 years ago people figured out they could communicate by carving symbols, known as hieroglyphics.
Writing from this period of time is hard to come by because they wrote on walls and stone.
1876
The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1976. Actual messages could now be exchanged, rather than through Morse Code.
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