one could control every platform/medium that there is. And if it's not completely controlled and synchronized - it's impossible to perform another War of the Worlds today. Right now we can google everything and double check it before believing it.
@Teoriainfocomu The case of Welle's War of the Worlds wouldn't be possible today. The reason for that is accessibility. Right now we have the broadest access to information in history - internet for one, but we also can use TV, radio and esc. It's simply impossible because no
Marconi was awarded patent for radio with British patent No.12,039 @Teoriainfocomu Tesla has also been called the inventor of radio, though some will disagree and attribute that invention to Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi.Tesla's early experiments with radio began in the 1890s.
#Unit1we'velearned @Teoriainfocomu. Infoxication or information overload is a large amount of information that is very difficult to process due to its volume, and prevents us from going deeper into the topics we are dealing with.
@Teoriainfocomu#entropyandredundancy#Shannon entropy of a random variable is the average level of "information", "surprise", or "uncertainty" inherent to the variable's possible outcomes. Redundancy is the amount of wasted "space" used to transmit certain data.
#Unit1we'velearned @Teoriainfocomu Bauman's theory about liquid society is very relevant not only for technological side of society but also to the understanding why we communicate the way we communicate with others. It explains why for us technology is necessary, but older
generation have such a difficulty with it. Main reason being - not being used to such a fast packing change in it. However Carr argued that technology is actually is making us more stupid, because we no longer feel like we need to educate ourselves constantly (why would we, when
@Teoriainfocomu#practica3 Ubiquitous technology - smartphone. Arthur Charles Clarke co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Mark D. Weiser considered to be the father of ubiquitous technology and chief officer of Xerox PARC.
@Teoriainfocomu#practica3 technophobes are people that fear/dislike advanced technology, especially computers. Technophile people who enjoy technology and ignore issues related with technology
@Teoriainfocomu#practica3 Vannevar Bush created National Science Foundation. "As we May think"'s a 1945 essay by Bush which was described as visionary and influencial. Memex's hypothetical device in "As we May think" for interacting with microform documents
#practica3 Paul Otlet predicted the arrival of the internet before World War II. He's considered the father of the documentation. Mundaneum is older version of a database, which aimed to gather all the world's knowledge and classify it to a system called the UDC. @Teoriainfocomu