Technological innovation of technology revolution
Author: Joseph J. Trail
Technological innovation is not an isolated event, is produced by accumulation and depends on the specific conditions of each society. We will mention two technological revolutions, which paved the way, the First Industrial Revolution, which was the epitome innovative steam engine and the Second Industrial Revolution, with the advent of electricity.
Both permeated the social and economic networks and formed the basis for an information technology revolution, characterized by an expansion of the human mind.
We can make a historical sequence of the revolution in information technology: from technological advances in the field of electronics that occurred in World War II and later, shows the first programmable computer and the transistor. Both the transistor and the computer programs give rise to microelectronics, which is the core of the revolution in information technology of the twentieth century (although 70 did not spread these new technologies.)
It is also important to note the parallel development of genetic engineering and telecommunications. The sum of electronic technologies, previously discussed (microelectronics, computers and telecommunications), within the field of interactive communication lead to the creation of the Internet, which so far is considered the most revolutionary technological medium of the age information.
This technological revolution as a main feature we highlight the application of knowledge in a cumulative feedback loop, where man can become a user and operator time. This indicates the creation of a narrow thread between the social processes of creation and manipulation of symbols, which is the culture that is generated in a society, and the ability to produce and distribute goods and services, which would be the productive forces.
At this point, the human mind will become a direct productive force, not an element of the production system. The social role of men is reformulated, is no longer just an element of the production chain, it’s going to be able to produce by itself, this gives a full turn to the social life takes place.
Another feature of this revolution is the speed with which it spread throughout the world that only two decades (from mid 70s-mid-90s), creating, forming a global bond that creates social inequality due to the uneven use of the benefits of it.
2. What is Information Society?
Is that society in which the technologies that facilitate the creation, distribution and manipulation of information play an important role in social, cultural and economic?
We can also see it as that ideology based on the mental frameworks of progress, growth and modernity, developed from the eighteenth century, based on various trends and changes in both scientific and technological driven largely by innovation in military and industrial capitalist.
3. What distinguishes the knowledge society of the above?
As we have seen the information society refers to the increasing technological capacity to store more and more information and to circulate it more and more quickly and more capable media. However, the knowledge society refers to something else, critical appropriation, and therefore selective, this information led by citizens who know what they want and what they need to know in each case, and therefore know what they can and must do without .
4. What are the characteristics of modern society with regard to technology?
The technologies are part of the technological culture of today’s society and culture around us with which we live. Expand our physical and mental abilities. And the possibilities of social development. We understand technologies, information technologies and communication, including, therefore, not only computers and associated technologies, telemetric and multimedia, but also the media of all kinds: social media (“Media”) media and traditional interpersonal technological support such as telephone, fax … All of this star in our technological culture and star aforementioned our day to day. They are a way of life that defines today’s society.
Thanks to them we have a society with rapid obsolescence of knowledge and the emergence of new values, leading to a society with continuous changes in our economic structures, social and cultural rights, and affecting almost every aspect of our lives: access the labor market, health, bureaucratic management, economic management, industrial design and art, entertainment, communication, information, how to perceive reality and thinking, organizing companies and institutions, its methods and activities, as interpersonal communication, quality of life, education …
His great impact on all aspects of our lives makes that we have a society in which it is increasingly difficult for us to act efficiently without them.
5. What are the technologies of information and communication?
The information technology and communication, also known as ICT, ICT or ICT for New Information Technologies and Communication and IT for “Information Technology”, grouped elements and techniques used in the processing and transmission of information, mainly computer, Internet and telecommunications.
6. How do these technologies in our society?
They are no panacea or magic formula, but improve the lives of many of the inhabitants of the planet. Tools are available to reach the Millennium Development Goals, instruments that will advance the cause of freedom and democracy, and the means to spread knowledge and to facilitate mutual understanding “(Kofi Annan, Secretary General Organization of the United Nations, speech inaugurating the first phase of WSIS, Geneva 2003).
Use among city dwellers, helps lower at any given time the digital gap, increasing the cluster of users who use ICT technology as a means to develop their activities and thus reduces the set of people who do not use. However, current mixed use leads to increased social inequality.
7. What is digital divide?
Find multiple definitions include the concept. Here we will mention that the digital divide is the gap that exists between people (communities, states, countries …) that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a routine part of daily life and those who do not have access to them and that while they do not know how to use them.
Such inequalities can cover all the new technologies of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as personal computers, mobile telephony, broadband and other devices.
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