CHAPTER 8 :

INFORMATION
SOCIETY
INFORMATION
WORD
 A combination of sounds that represents something.
 It is significance which makes words distinct from any kind of
vocal utterance.
 They are “informed” because they carry and transmit
“information.”
 Words are informed with meaning given by the speaker and
intended for the listener.

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ROLE OF LANGUAGE

 The ability to name and classify objects

found in nature was seen as a first step in
knowing
 For ancient Greeks, language was an
object worthy of admiration.
 Words have power

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 How is it possible that one’s idea can
simultaneously exist in his/her mind and in
another’s?
 How is it possible that human beings can
communicate through words and thus
form of community?
 Does the power of the communicated
word come from the speaker, who is the
thinker and the source, or the listener,
who is the recipient of he
communication?
 SCIRE
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 In Science, it means know or
knowledge.
 Is one kind of knowledge the
Greek wanted to understand.

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• The idea of comprehending words
as more than just combinations of
sound led the Greeks to seek out
the principles of everyday
language

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 A meaningful message is
created using ordinary sounds.
in that, its meaning is also not
diminished by multiplication- the
speaker can use the same words
over and over again.

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MATHEMATICS AS THE LANGUAGE
OF NATURE
 Technology in the modern world
is the fruit of science.

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 Since people have discovered
the laws and language of nature,
they can develop technology
that uses these laws and
language for their benefit.

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 This language is mathematics,
the great contribution of Isaac
Newton.

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TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
 The ability to think and conceptually
comprehend nature and the principles it
follows eventually leads to science.

 Hero of Alexandria, for instance, would

invent a primitive steam engine in the first
century. (Davies, 1990).

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 THE PRINTING PRESS AND
BEYOND
✘ The power of the eidos, or idea, would be
witnessed in the succeeding centuries of
development in the West.
✘ The ancient fascination with language gave
rise to the preservation of the words of
earlier people at the same time when the
West weakened itself due to internecine
warfare and conflicts.
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✘ From this manual action would arise the
technology that would transform cultures
the – Printing Press.
✘ It serves as the beginning of the true
revolution in which could be dated to the 15th
century.

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✘ Using the printing press, people on the
different sides of the world could share their
thoughts and ideas with each other forming
communities of thinkers across space and
time (Conell, 1958)

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✘ Such a digital world is a direct offspring of
the progressing world of technology built
upon the many advances in science (Toffler,
1984).

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THE WORLD WIDE WEB
 It was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee as a
way of addressing data processing and
information sharing needs among scientists for
the european organization for nuclear
research (cern).

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 CERN’S ATOM SMASHER
 It produces a huge amount of scientific data every
second.
 It thus required better data analyzers to work on the
gathered information in coordination with each other.
 Processing a veritable ocean and mountain of scientific
data generated by the atom smasher needed a new
medium.

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TRUTHS
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