5th information revolution: the toolshed home
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Discusses how developments in communication technologies are changing the society.TRANSCRIPT
55thth Information Revolution: Information Revolution:
The Toolshed HomeThe Toolshed Home
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The Toolshed Home
• Coming of electricity
• Communication without transportation
• Radio, phonograph, newspaper & magazines – were all enjoyed at home
The Great DepressionThe Great Depression
• Mass unemployment
• Bread lines, soup kitchens
• Families evicted from homes
• They wanted FREE entertainment
““Free” EntertainmentFree” Entertainment
• Free radio entertainment was all that many people can afford
• “the Golden Age of Radio”
• Radio was much more personal
The Power of RadioThe Power of Radio
• October 30, 1938• Orson Welles’ Mercury
Theater• HG Well’s War of the
Worlds• Demonstrated the
emotional power of media• Hypodermic Needle
Effect
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Television Technology: BeginningsTelevision Technology: Beginnings
• “seeing at a distance”
• Scientific American June 1907
• Visual wireless, visual radio, electric vision
Television Technology: BeginningsTelevision Technology: Beginnings
1884Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
“Nipkow Disk”1st major technological discovery to suggest
that pictures could travel
Television Technology: BeginningsTelevision Technology: Beginnings
1923Vladimir Zworykin
Developed an all-electronic system to transform a visual
image into an electrical signalthat could travel through air.
Television Technology: BeginningsTelevision Technology: Beginnings1930
Philo FarnsworthImproved Nipkow’s
Mechanical scanning device:Cathode ray, reproduces
electronic images more clearly.
Television Technology: BeginningsTelevision Technology: Beginnings
April 30, 1939NBC’s Commercial TV debut
1939 World’s Fair, NYPres. Franklin Roosevelt –
1st president to appear on TV
Early Television ProgrammingEarly Television Programming
• Like radio with pictures: variety shows, sitcoms, drama, Westerns, detective stories, soap operas and quiz shows
Rise of Television NewsRise of Television News
November 22, 1963Assassination of JFK
More than 9 out 10 American watched the coverage
1968Anti-War Demonstrations and Vietnam War
Radio in the TV EraRadio in the TV Era
1936Edwin Armstrong
introduces FM(frequency modulation)
radio
1935Martin Block
1st DJLicensed recordingslaunch disc jockeys
Gordon McLendonIntroduced format
radio-Standardized
-programs
Portable RadiosPortable Radios
1928William LearCar Radio
“drive-time audiences”6-9 am; 4-7pm
Gerald Bartell 1957
Radio’s New RoleRadio’s New Role
• Once the leisure-time “reward”
• Now accompanies almost every type of activity
• Radio as companion• Radio survived
because it adapted to fill a different need for its audience
Wiring the Toolshed: CATVWiring the Toolshed: CATV
• CATV – Community Antenna Television
• 1948 • John Walson • Demonstrated TV using
army surplus twin-lead cable
• Jerrold Electronics – designed the system
Wiring the Toolshed: CATVWiring the Toolshed: CATV
• Early CATV systems received broadcast television signals off the air and distributed the over coaxial cable to subscribers’ television
• These systems did not originate programming
Originating ProgrammingOriginating Programming
• 1951• Martin Malarkey• Pottsville,
Pennsylvania• Responsible for
local origination with his 30 min local program
• CATV was now “cable tv”
Trying to Record TelevisionTrying to Record Television
John Logie BairdThe first to produce
moving television images.
Tried to record a picture signal on
phonograph records.
Lee de ForestBuilt an
apparatus that included a revolving wheel and needles that etched a moving
film coated with silver.
RVL Harley and HE Ivesdevised the kinescope.
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The First Videotape MachinesThe First Videotape Machines• 1956• Ampex succeeded in
devising a video recorder
• 3M worked with Ampex to make high quality recording tape
• 1958 – networks were recording in color
• 1971 – Sony introduced the Umatic ¾ cassette tape recorder
Home VideosHome VideosPeople do not have to read a
book when its delivered. Why should they have to
see a TV program when it is delivered?
Akio MoritaSONY President
1975SONY introduced the
Betamax.
1976JVC introduced theVHS (video home
system).
Cellular Phones
• A long-rage, portable electronic device used for mobile communication
• 1945 – 0G phones were introduced
• 1970 – Amos Joel of Bell Labs invented the “call-handoff” feature
• Martin Cooper of Motorola – inventor of the first practical mobile phone
• Mid-1980s – 1G phones were launched – 1st fully automatic mobile phone system
To SummarizeTo Summarize
• NEED– Free entertainment, information by
demand• MEANS
– Radio, phonograph, telephone• SOLUTION
– Television, new radio formats, cable TV, VCRs, fiber optics, cellular phones
• EFFECT– Old media adapting to old media, time
shifting, heavy media usage, contacts decreasing