Four Ages of Media and Information Throughout the History
Pre-Historic Age
In this era, the people discovered fire, forge equipment or weapons like spear and swords that is made out of stones, iron or copper. However, what makes the era interesting is the development of paper from plants.
3.3 million years ago and the invention of writing systems, the earliest of which appeared ~5300 years ago.Technology that predates recorded history. History is the study of the past using written records; it is also the record itself. Anything prior to the first written accounts of history is prehistoric (meaning “before history”), including earlier technologies. About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, cut food, and bury their dead.
The evidences that there was media and information existed in this period was the cave paintings, clay tablets in Mesopotamia, sculptures, pottery, papyrus in Egypt and Dibao in China.
Industrial Age
During the industrial age, people used the power of steam, developed machine equipment, established iron production and manufacturing of various products this includes the book through printing press. This is when it encompasses the changes in
economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and
later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand
tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine,
and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
Example forms of media during this period are the telegraph , typewriter, including the newspapers, commercial motion pictures and printing press from mass production.
Electronic Age
The people during this era are harnessed and already in the influence of electricity that lead to the existence of electrical telegraphy, electrical circuits and the early large scale computers, radio that made the communication, media and information became more efficient that the past years.
The New (Digital) Age
People around this advance period became highly influenced by high technology. They are advanced in using microelectronics in the intervention of personal computers, mobile devices and wearable technology. This way, the communication or sharing of information is very fast and easy through internet or social medias.
