Q: How have societal trends during the Information Age been influenced by technological advances?
A: Societal trends were greatly influenced during the Information Age. Prior to the Information Age workers were involved in the manufacturing of products and the economy was built on goods and services. During the Information Age workers became more involved in the creation, management, and transfer of information and the economy was built on information. Also, cognition and metacognition became more important than ever before. The three most important trends that mark the Information Age are a shift in demographics, an acceleration of technology, and an ever expanding base of available data. Some children in schools today have never lived in a world without computers, whereas people born before the Information Age may have lived in a world where computers were not yet invented. People used to have to go to the library and find actual hard copies and encyclopedias and other books for information but now people can just type information into a search engine and find all kinds of resources.
Information is so easily accessible in this day in age and the fact that we can so readily gain knowledge and help students is incredible.
ReplyDeleteGreat Post. I can't imagine being without my laptop for a day:)
ReplyDeleteThe last sentence of your blog makes me wonder how long will it be until libraries go extinct! Hopefully that will never happen but who knows with the rate we are going...
ReplyDeleteI am glad that the Information Age had given birth to search engines. I love Google. It is so handy that you can just go type in anything, and someone has written about it. It is great that information is so readily available at our fingertips through the information superhighway.
ReplyDeleteI think it is amazing how quickly the technology we enjoy today has come about and changed our lifestyles. As you mentioned, people used to have to go to the library to find hard copies of information they wanted to research, but now we have so much information available at the click of a mouse!
ReplyDeleteGoing off of what Danielle said, libraries better stay here. I know it is easier to find information on the web and now that Kindles and Nooks have exploded on the market, people aren't even holding the book anymore. It would be a shame for the book to go extinct.
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