Positive aspects include greater interconnectedness, easier communication, and the exposure of information that in the past could have more easily been suppressed by totalitarian regimes. Michio Kaku ...
Underlying the digital revolution was the development of the digital electronic computer, the personal computer, and particularly the microprocessor with its steadily increasing performance (as descri ...
Gramophone record to CD (released 1982) and MP3 (released 1994 for computers only; first MP3 player 1998)Typewriter to printer (1980s to mid-1990s)Analog photography (film photography) to digital phot ...
Origins (1947–1969) In 1947 the transistor was invented, leading the way to more advanced digital computers. In the 1950s and 1960s the military, governments and other organizations had computer syst ...
The underlying technology was invented in the later half of the 19th century, including Babbage's analytical engine and the telegraph. Digital communication became economical for widespread adoption a ...
1980 Cell phone subscribers: 11.2 million Internet users: All Internet users at this time were indexed in a phone book sized directory.1990 Cell phone subscribers: 12.4 million (0.25% of world populat ...
The Agricultural Revolution lead to agricultural cities in the ancient world in the Middle East, Mesoamerica, China, the Indus Valley, Southern Europe and South America.Then the Industrial Revolution ...
The Digital Revolution is the change from analog mechanical and electronic technology to digital technology which began anywhere from the late 1950s to the late 1970s with the adoption and proliferati ...
One of the central paradoxes of the information society is that it makes information easily reproducible, leading to a variety of freedom/control problems relating to intellectual property. Essentiall ...
A number of terms in current use emphasize related but different aspects of the emerging global economic order. The Information Society intends to be the most encompassing in that an economy is a subs ...
In sociology, informational society refers to a post-modern type of society. Theoreticians like Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Manuel Castells argue that since the 1970s a transformation from indust ...
Information society is the means of getting information from one place to another (Wark, 1997, p. 22). As technology has advanced so too has the way people have adapted in sharing this information wit ...
One of the first people to develop the concept of the information society was the economist Fritz Machlup. In 1933, Fritz Machlup began studying the effect of patents on research. His work culminated ...
The growth of technologically mediated information has been quantified in different ways, including society's technological capacity to store information, to communicate information, and to compute in ...
There is currently no universally accepted concept of what exactly can be termed information society and what shall rather not so be termed. Most theoreticians agree that a transformation can be seen ...
