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represents a period characterized by the widespread adoption of digital technology

Information Age

there is a need for information to stand out and be recognized in the clutter.

Information must compete

we forgot the truth that any fact of value can endure

Newer is required with truer

Choose multiple sources for your information if you want to receive a more balance view of reality

Selection is a viewpoint

In other words, information is driven by cultural priorities

The media sells what the culture buys

The first media channel to expose an issue often defines the context, terms and attitudes surrounding it.

The early word gets the perm

Do not draw conclusions unless all ideas and information are presented to you.

You are what you eat and so is your brain

The demand for incredible knowledge, scandals and secrets, is ever present; hence,any events are fabricated by tabloids, publicists and other information fraud.

Anything in great demand will be counterfeited

It is almost certainly impossible to make any assertions that will not find any supporters and some detractors.

Ideas are seen as controversial

Rumors, lies disinformation, and gossip never truly dies down. They persist and continue to circulate.

Undead information walks ever on.

People behave much differently from he way they would if being filmed when the media are present, especially film news or television media.

Media presents creates the story

Television is mainly pictorial, partially aural, and slightly textual., so visual stories are emphasized.

The medium selects the message

The information that reaches us is usually selected, verbally charged, filtered, slanted, and sometimes fabricated.

The whole truth is a pursuit

Is a single user instrument

Personal Computer

These are a portable computers that integrate the essentials of a desktop computer.

Laptops

It is described as a PC that is not designed for portability

Desktop Computer

These are tightly integrated that usually have no keyboards but rely on touchscreen for user input

Personal Digital Assistance (PDAs)

American Mathematician who is considered as "Father of Information Theory"

Claude E. Shannon

It refers to a computer that has been improved to provide network services to other computers.

Server

These are huge computer systems that can fill an entire room

Mainframes

They involve materials that are usually integrated into crll phones, watches, and other small objects or places

Wearable computers

It is the wider network that allows computer netwoks around the wolrd run by compuanies, governments, universities, and other organizations to talk to one another.

Internet

It is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets:It refers to encrypted online content that is not indexed on conventional search engine.

Dark Web

Is a private network, operated by a large company or other organizations, which uses internet technologies, but is insulated from the gloval internet.

Intranet

Is an intranet that us accessible to some people from outside the company, or possibly shared by more than one organization.

Extranet

How to Check the Reliabilit of Web Sources?

Who is the author of the article/site
Who published the site?
What is the quality of information provided on the website?

Us defined as the vast variety if life forms in the entire earth

Biodiversity

Is the study of natural systems, and an ecosystem is a natural system where abiotic and biotic components interact with one another.

Ecology

Concept defines a species as members of populations that actually or potentially interbreed in nature, not according to similarity of apperance.

Species

Is the science of genes and how traits are passed on from one generation to the next. Every living thing has DNA

Genetics

_________ In any system could bring varied effects.

Alteration

It could have erratic effects not only in widlife or marine life but also in _________

Human Beings

Without _, our entire support system for buman, as well as animal life, would _

Biodiversity, collapse

We rely on _______ to provide us with food and clean water, for a lot of medicines, and to prevent flooding and other extreme weather

Nature

Threats to Biodiversity:
• Habitat loss and ____
• Alteration in _
• Over __
• _ and contamination
• Global ______

Destruction, ecosystem composition, Pollution, Climate Change

Habitat loss and destruction, Alteration in ecosystem composition, Over exploitation, Pollution and contamination, Global Climate Change

It continues to play an essential role in health care, especially in primary health care

Traditional Medicine

It is the term used for an organism created through genetic engineering

Genetic Modified Organism (GMO)

The WHO defines it as an "organism, either plant, animal, or microorganism"

Genetically Modified Organism

GMO is often used to enhance desired traits in crops.

Purpose of Genetic Modification

Techniques like recombinant DNA technology are commonly employed to transfer genes between organisms.

Scientific Techniques

GMO allows for a higher level of PRECISION annd CONTROL in introducing desires traits.

Precision and Control

Concerns about the potential ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT of GMOS include issues such as development of resistant pests.

Environmental Impact

GMOs is ALSO used in MEDICAL RESEARCH, prpducing medicines, and modifying organisms to study gene function.

Applications Beyond Agriculture

Typically refers to the REALMS of NANOtechnology, which involves manipualtion and study of matter at the nanoscape.

Nanoworld

Is defined as DIMENSION ranging rom 1-100 nanometers. where nanometer js queal to one billionth of a meter.

Nanoscale

It was first developed by Gerd Binig, Calvin Quarte, and Christoph Gerber in 1996. It is a powerful technique that enables the imaging of almost any type of surface.

Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)

It was built by German engineers Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll in 1930s.

Electron Microscope

It is used to investigate the ulta-structure of a wide range of biological and inorganic specimens including microorganisms.