The Information Age 2
The Information Age 2
INFORMATION
AGE
LESSON OBJECTIVES:
INFORMATION
ANXIETY
It is produced by that ever-widening gap between
what we understand and what we think we
should understand. It is the black hole between
data and knowledge, and what happens when
information doesn’t tell us what want or what we
need to know? (Richard Saul Wurman,
Information Anxiety)
1. 2. Newer is
Information equated
THE TRUTHS must with truer.
OF compete.
INFORMATION
AGE 4. The media
3. Selection
sells what
is a
the culture
viewpoint.
buys.
6. You are
5. The early
what you eat
word gets the
THE TRUTHS perm.
and so is your
brain.
OF
INFORMATION
AGE 7. Anything in
8. Ideas are
great demand
seen
will be
controversial.
counterfeited.
9. Undead 10. Media
information presence
THE TRUTHS walks ever creates the
OF on. story.
INFORMATION
AGE 11. The
12. The
medium
whole truth
selects the
is pursuit.
message.
COMPUTER
1. PERSONAL COMPUTER
(PC)
Single-user instrument.
Known as microcomputers
since they were a computer
but built on a smaller scale
than the enormous systems
operated by most businesses.
TYPES OF
COMPUTER
2. DESKTOP COMPUTER
A personal computer that is not
designed for portability.
WORKSTATION: Desktop Computer
that has a more powerful processor,
additional memory, and enhanced
capabilities for performing a special
group of tasks such as 3D graphics or
game development.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
3. LAPTOPS
Portable computers that
integrate the essentials of a
desktop computer in a battery-
operated/powered package.
They are commonly called
notebooks.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
4. Personal Digital
Assistants (PDAs)
Tightly integrated computers
that usually have no
keyboards but rely on a touch
screen for user input.
Typically, smaller than a
paperback, lightweight, and
battery-powered.
A personal digital assistant
(PDA), also known as a
handheld PC.
TYPES OF COMPUTER
• 5. Server
• 6. Mainframes
7. Wearable Computers
Materials that are usually
integrated into cellphones,
watches, and other small
objects or places.
Perform common computer
applications such as
databases, e-mails,
multimedia, and schedules.
Claude E. Shannon – Father of
THE WORLD WIDE Information Theory
Internet - World Wide system, of
WEB (Internet) interconnected networks that facilitate data
transmission among innumerable
computers.
• The Internet contains a vast
How to Check the collection of highly valuable information, but
it may also contain unreliable, biased
Reliability of Web information that mislead people. The
following guidelines can help us check the
Sources reliability of web sources that we gather. It
is noteworthy to consider and apply the
following guidelines to avoid misinformation.
How to Check • 1. Who is the author of the article/site?
the Reliability Do not ignore suffix on the domain name (the three-
letter part that comes after the “.”). The suffix is
of Web Sources usually (but not always) descriptive of what type of
entity hosts the website. Keep in mind that it is
possible for sites to obtain suffixes that are
misleading. Here are some examples:
• .edu = educational
• .com = commercial
• .mil = military
• .gov = government
• .org = nonprofit
How to Check 3. What is the main purpose of the site? Why did
the author write it and why did the publisher
the Reliability post it?
• Application of information
technology to store, organize and
analyze the vast amount of
biological data which is available
in the form of sequences and
structures of proteins – building
blocks of organisms and nucleic
acids – the information carrier
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS IN
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
RATIONAL DRUG DISCOVERY
• From the pharmaceutical industry’s point of view, bioinformatics is the key to rational drug
discovery. It reduces the number of trials in the screening of drug compounds and in identifying
potential drug targets for a particular disease using high-power computing workstations and
software like Insight. This profound application of bioinformatics in genome sequence has led to
a new area in pharmacology – hypothesized from the genome sequence has led to new area in
pharmacology – Pharmacogenomics, where potential targets for drug development are requires a
lot of calculations, has become faster due to the advances in computer processors and its
architecture.
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS IN SCIENCE
AND RESEARCH
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
• In plant biotechnology,
bioinformatics is found to be
useful in the areas of
identifying diseases
resistance genes and
designing plants with high
nutrition value.