From among the table of Timeline of the Information Age, choose one event you think has the impact on the emergence of the Information Age. Explain your answer in exactly 5 sentences.
Extracted text: Altair Microcomputer Kit was-released: first personal computer for the public RadioShack introduced the first complete personal computer Apple Macintosh computer was introduced Artificial intelligence was separated from information 1975 1977 1984 Mid 1980s science Hypercard was developed by Bill Atkinson recipe box metaphor Four hundred fifty complete works of literature on one CD- ROM was released 1987 1991 RSA (encryption and network security software) Internet security code cracked for a 48-bit number January 1997 Figure 7. Evolution of Man and Information As man evolved, information and its dissemination has also evolved in many ways. Eventually, we no longer kept them to ourselves; instead, we share them and manage them in different means. Information got ahead of us. It started to grow at a rate we were unprepared to handle. Because of the abundance of information, it was difficult to collect and manage them starting in the 1960s and 1970s. During the 1980s, real angst set in. Richard Wurman called it "Information Anxiety." In the 1990s, information became the currency in the business world. Information was the preferred medium of exchange and the information managers served as information officers. In the present generation, there is no doubt that information has turned out to be a commodity, an overdeveloped product, mass-produced, and unspecialized. Soon, we become overloaded with it. Chapter III: Specific Issues in Science, Technology, and Society 107
Extracted text: • The Library of Congress was established Invention of the carbon arc lamp 1802 1824 Research on persistence of vision published • First viable design for a digital computer Augusta Lady Byron writes the world's first computer 1830s program 1837 Invention of the telegraph in Great Britain and the United States |1861 Motion pictures were projected onto a screen Dewey Decimal system was introduced Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated high-speed photography First magnetic recordings were released Motion picture special effects were used Lee DeForest invented the electronic amplifying tube (triode) Television camera tube was invented by Zvorkyn First practical sound movie Regularly scheduled television broadcasting began in the 1876 1877 1899 1902 1906 1923 1926 1939 US Beginnings of information science as a discipline Vannevar Bush foresaw the invention of hypertext ENIAC computer was developed Birth of field-of-information theory proposed by Claude E. Shannon 1940s 1945 1946 1948 1957 Planar transistor was developed by Jean Hoerni First integrated circuit Library of Congress developed LC MARC (machine- readable code) 1958 1960s 1969 UNIX operating system was developed, which could handle multitasking Intel introduced the first microprocessor chip Optical laserdisc was developed by Philips and MCA MCA and Philips agreed on a standard videodisc encoding format 1971 1972 1974 106 Science, Technology, and Society