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    The innovations of the Information Age have benefits but also negative impacts that society must be aware of. It introduced developments like the printing press, Renaissance, and inventions like computers and the internet. While these created new opportunities for education, communication, and commerce, they also risk increasing inequality, distracting people, and disrupting social and work habits. The digital divide means not all people equally experience the benefits of new technologies.

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    The innovations of the Information Age have benefits but also negative impacts that society must be aware of. It introduced developments like the printing press, Renaissance, and inventions like computers and the internet. While these created new opportunities for education, communication, and commerce, they also risk increasing inequality, distracting people, and disrupting social and work habits. The digital divide means not all people equally experience the benefits of new technologies.

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    The innovations of the Information Age have benefits but also negative impacts that society must be aware of. It introduced developments like the printing press, Renaissance, and inventions like computers and the internet. While these created new opportunities for education, communication, and commerce, they also risk increasing inequality, distracting people, and disrupting social and work habits. The digital divide means not all people equally experience the benefits of new technologies.

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    The Information Age: Society's Well-Being

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    The Information Age

    The innovations and inventions of the information age are


    intended for society’s well-being.
    However, apart from the benefits that these innovations
    and inventions bring to humanity, a wide range of negative
    impacts have been noted.
    It is necessary that society is aware of these impacts
    because these will enlighten and guide everyone to be
    protected from whatever the negative effects may cause.
    Development of Information Age

    1. Introduction of printing press


    2. Development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of
    Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution
    3. Laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based
    economy and the spread of learning to the masses.
    4. Free flow of information:
    = basic idea was used to develop modern inventions
    = discoveries paved the way for modern tools, inventions and
    innovations
    5. major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation,
    and technology
    Inventions and Innovations of the Information Age:
    = computer
    = internet
    = world wide web
    = electronic mail
    = Microsoft
    Impacts of the Information Age on Society
    Positive Impacts:

    1. The Information Age has made industrial countries stronger.


    2. People are becoming more mature and more educated due to things
    like the computer and the Internet.
    3. Information Age has reshaped governments, with new technology
    being created every day. Governments can now have more advanced
    and effective militaries.
    4. The Internet has turned society into homebodies, individuals who do
    everything from the comfort of their homes instead of venturing
    outdoors to complete tasks.
    Positive Impacts:
    5.People can do everything online; shopping, communicating,
    bill paying, working, education, entertainment, even ordering
    food.
    6. The commercial possibilities were limitless.
    7. Convenience was greatly improved.
    8. Chat rooms and email allowed individuals to converse who
    may never have had the opportunity in the past.
    9. Educational opportunities were greatly enhanced because of
    the wealth of knowledge now placed at the fingertips of any
    wired individual.
    = SURFING THE 'NET" became a pastime in and of itself.
    Negative impacts
    1) Huge criminal organizations rely on hacking into government
    systems and obtaining confidential information to continue their way
    of life.
    2) It also impacts our work ethics by distracting us and causing us
    to lose interest in the task we are doing.
    3) This time period has also created a shortage of jobs and making
    many jobs obsolete because machines are now being used to do the
    work humans once did.
    Negative Impacts:
    4) Online shopping, communicating, bill paying, working,
    education, entertainment, even ordering food may be good, but
    it has also made us a very lazy and uneducated society.
    5) Critics charged that the Internet created a technological
    divide that increased the gap between the haves and have-nots.
    6) Hate groups were using the Internet to expand their bases
    and recruit new members.
    Social Media

    Most popular social media websites:

    Facebook
    Instagram
    Twitter
    Youtube
    Viber
    WhatsApp
    Tiktok
    Quora
    Snapchat
    LinkedIn
    People who live in poverty, such as homeless people, have low
    levels of access to computers and Internet or a lack of familiarity
    with these technologies.

    The digital divide is a measure of disparity in the level of access to


    technology between households, socioeconomic levels or other
    demographic categories.

    Social Media can be an effective communication (or marketing) tool


    for corporations, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, advocacy
    groups, political parties, and governments.
    Girls generally show more emotion in their posts and more
    frequently change their profile pictures, which according to some
    psychologists can lead to self-objectification.
    Self-objectification occurs when individuals treat themselves
    as objects to be viewed and evaluated based upon
    appearance.
    Because of algorithms on social media which filter and display news
    content which are likely to match their users’ political preferences, a
    potential impact of receiving news from social media includes an
    increase in political polarization due to selective exposure.
    .Users of Facebook generally use their profile to reflect that they are a
    "normal" person. Social media was found to uphold gender stereotypes
    both feminine and masculine.

    Angry or emotional conversations can lead to real-world interactions


    outside of the Internet, which can get users into dangerous situations.

    Excessive use of digital technology, like social media, by adolescents


    can cause disruptions in their physical and mental health, in sleeping
    patterns, their weight and levels of exercise and notably in their
    academic performance.
    Social media has offered a new platform for peer pressure with both
    positive and negative communication.

    From Facebook comments to likes on Instagram, how the youth


    communicate and what is socially acceptable is now heavily based on
    social media.

    The Information Age was formed by capitalizing on computer


    microminiaturization advances, which, upon broader usage within
    society, would lead to modernized information and to communication
    processes becoming the driving force of social evolution.
    The Information Age is coupled tightly with the advent of personal
    computers.

    The Information Age is now every era from the Stone Age up to The
    Industrial Revolution has led to the world as we know it.
    Without the information, knowledge and discoveries of those
    from the past, we would not be where we are today. The past
    has shaped our present and will continue to shape our future.

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