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Roles Played by These Technological Advancements SLIDESMANIA.COM  Television ✓ Advertisements and information dissemination ✓ Recreational activity and good stress...

Roles Played by These Technological Advancements SLIDESMANIA.COM  Television ✓ Advertisements and information dissemination ✓ Recreational activity and good stress reliever ✓ Good platform for different propagandas and advocacies SLIDESMANIA.COM ✓ Good way to bond  Mobile Phones ✓ Communication ✓ Surf the internet ✓ Take pictures ✓ Other applications like music player, calendar, radio and among others. SLIDESMANIA.COM  Personal computers and laptops ✓ Surf the internet and communication ✓ Use for job ✓ Play games ✓ Watch movie etc. SLIDESMANIA.COM  Ethical Dilemma Faced by These Technological Advancements SLIDESMANIA.COM  ✓ Most parents would argue that these devices make their children lazy and unhealthy. ✓ People who develop different kinds of sickness because of too much use of technological devices. SLIDESMANIA.COM  Robotics and Humanity SLIDESMANIA.COM  Another great product of the innovative minds of the people is the robot. Example there are so called service robots. These particular robots do specific tasks but focus mainly in assisting their masters in their everyday tasks. SLIDESMANIA.COM  The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) made it their task to formulate a working definition for service robots. ✓ A robot is an actuated mechanism programmable in two or more axes with a degree of autonomy, moving within its environment, to perform intended tasks. ✓ A service robot is a robot that performs useful tasks for humans or equipment excluding industrial automation SLIDESMANIA.COM application.  ✓ A personal service robot or a service robot for personal use is a robot used for a noncommercial task, usually by laypersons. Ex. Domestic servant robot, automated wheelchair, personal mobility assist robot, and pet exercising robot. ✓ A professional service robot or a service robot for professional use is a robot used for a commercial task, usually operated by a properly trained operator Ex. Cleaning robot for public places, delivery robot in offices SLIDESMANIA.COM or hospitals, fire fighting robot, rehabilitation robot, and surgery robot in hospitals.  Germany was one of the first countries to develop service robots. Germany sponsored a collaborative project called DESIRE (Deutsche Servicerobotik Initiative-Germany Service Robotics Initiative) which was launched on October 1, 2005 SLIDESMANIA.COM DESIRE  Some of the expected work to be performed by DESIRE are the ff: ✓ Clear up the kitchen table ✓ Fill the dishwasher ✓ Clear up this room SLIDESMANIA.COM DESIRE  Just like people living in the society, robots also have their own set of rules and characteristics that define what a good robot is. These laws were formulated by Isaac Asimov back in the 1940’s, when he was thinking of the ethical consequences of robots. These are the following: Law One: A robot may not injure a human Isaac Asimov being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. SLIDESMANIA.COM  Law Two: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Law Three: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. SLIDESMANIA.COM  The Information Age Module 9 November 9, 2022 SLIDESMANIA.COM  Introduction Highly modernized, automated, data-driven, and technologically advanced – these best describe our society nowadays, as evidenced by how information could be transferred or shared quickly. SLIDESMANIA.COM  The information aged is defined as a “period starting in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became effortlessly accessible through publications and through the management of information by computers and computer networks.” The information age is also called the Digital Age and the New Media Age because it was associated with SLIDESMANIA.COM the development of computers.  JAMES R. MESSENGER He proposed the Theory of Information Age in 1982. Based on this theory, “the Information age is a true new aged based upon the interconnection of computers via telecommunications, with basis. Furthermore, the primary factors driving this new age forward are convenience and user friendliness SLIDESMANIA.COM James R. Messenger which, in turn, will create user dependence.”  Timeline of the Information Age SLIDESMANIA.COM SLIDESMANIA.COM SLIDESMANIA.COM SLIDESMANIA.COM SLIDESMANIA.COM  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 SLIDESMANIA.COM the abundance of information, it was difficult to collect and manage them starting in the 1960s and 1970s.  RICHARD WURMAN Called it “information anxiety.” Human cost of information overload. SLIDESMANIA.COM Richard Wurman  Robert Harris detailed some facts on the information age. Truths of the information age 1. Information must be complete. 2. Newer is equated with truer. 3. Selection is a viewpoint. 4. The media sells what the culture buys. 5. The early word gets the perm 6. You are what you eat and so is SLIDESMANIA.COM Robert Harris your brain.  Truths of the information age 7. Anything in great demand will be counterfeited. 8. Ideas are seen as controversial. 9. Undead information walks ever on. 10. Media presence creates the story. 11. The medium selects the message. SLIDESMANIA.COM Robert Harris COMPUTER SLIDESMANIA.COM  A computer is an electronic device that stores and processes data (information). It runs on a program that contains the exact, step – by - step directions to solve a problem. SLIDESMANIA.COM  TYPES OF COMPUTER SLIDESMANIA.COM  1. PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC) It is a single-user instrument, PCs were first known as microcomputers since they were a complete computer but built on a smaller scale than the enormous system operated by most businesses. SLIDESMANIA.COM  2. DESKTOP COMPUTER It is described as a PC that is not designed for portability. The assumption with a desktop is that it will be set up in a permanent spot. SLIDESMANIA.COM  3. LAPTOP These are portable computers that integrate the essentials of a desktop computer in a battery – powered package, which are somewhat larger than a typical hardcover book. SLIDESMANIA.COM  4. PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS (PDAs) These are tightly integrated computers that usually have no keyboards but rely on a touch screen for user input. PDAs are typically smaller than a paperback, lightweight, and battery- powered. SLIDESMANIA.COM  5. SERVER It refers to a computer that has been improved to provide network services to other computers. Servers usually boast powerful processors, tons of memory, and large drives. SLIDESMANIA.COM  6. MAINFRAMES These are huge computer systems that can fill an entire room. They are used especially by large firms to describe the large, expensive machines that process millions of transactions every day. The term “mainframe” has been replaced by enterprise server. SLIDESMANIA.COM  7. WEARABLE COMPUTERS They involve materials that are usually integrated into cell phones, watches and other small objects or places. They perform common computer applications such as databases, email, multimedia, and schedulers. SLIDESMANIA.COM  THE WORLD WIDE WEB (Internet) SLIDESMANIA.COM  Several historians trace the origin of the internet to Claude F. Shannon, an American Mathematicians who was considered as the “Father of Information Theory”. Claude F. Shannon SLIDESMANIA.COM  The internet is a worldwide system of interconnected networks that facilitate data transmission among innumerable computers. It was developed during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. In case of an attack, military advisers suggested the advantage of being able to operate on one computer from another terminal. SLIDESMANIA.COM  In the early days, the Internet was used mainly by scientists to communicate with other scientists. The Internet remained under government control until 1984. SLIDESMANIA.COM  One early problem faced by internet users was speed. Phone lines could only transmit information at a limited rate. The development of fiber optic cables allowed for billions of bits of information to be received every minute. SLIDESMANIA.COM  Sergey Brin and Larry Page, directors of a Stanford research project, built a research engine that listed results to reflect page popularity when they determined that the most popular results to frequently be the most usable. Google is now the world’s most popular search engine, accepting more than 200 million queries daily. SLIDESMANIA.COM Larry Page and Sergey Brin  Back then, new forms of communication were also introduced. Electronic mail, or email, was a suitable way to send a message to fellow workers, business partners, or friends. Message could be sent and received at the convenience of the individual. A letter that took several days to arrive could be read in minutes. SLIDESMANIA.COM  Consequently, companies whose businesses are built on digitized information have become valuable and powerful in Bill Gates relatively short period of time; the current Information Age has spawned its own breed of wealthy influential brokers from Steve Jobs Microsoft’s Bill Gates to Apple’s Steve Jobs to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. SLIDESMANIA.COM Mark Zuckerberg  Nowadays, crimes in various forms are rampant because of the use of social media. Cyber bullying is an issue that poses alarm worldwide. SLIDESMANIA.COM  APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH SLIDESMANIA.COM  One of the significant applications of computers for science and research is evident in the field of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is the application if information technology to store, organize, and analyze vast amount of biological data which is available in the forms of sequences and structures of proteins. SLIDESMANIA.COM  HOW TO CHECK THE RELIABILITY OF WEB SOURCES SLIDESMANIA.COM  The internet contains a vast collection of highly valuable information, but it may also contain unreliable, biased information that mislead people. SLIDESMANIA.COM  The following guidelines can help us check the reliability of web sources that we gather. 1. Who is the author of the article/site? 2. Who published the site? 3. What is the main purpose of the site? 4. Who is the intended audience? 5. What is the quality of information provided on the website? SLIDESMANIA.COM  One can also visit the university library and seek help from librarians as they are knowledgeable. Therefore, we need to carefully check our motives before disseminating information and we also need to verify information before believing and using and sharing them. SLIDESMANIA.COM