The Evolution of Traditional Media
1. Prehistoric Age- Prehistoric technology is technology technology that that predates recorded history. history. History is the study of the past using written records. Anything prior to the rst written accounts of history is prehistoric prehistoric,, including earlier technologies. About 2.5 million years before writing was deeloped, technology began with the earliest hominids hominids who who used stone tools, tools, which they may hae used to start res, hunt, and bury their dead. !here are seeral factors that made the eolution of prehistoric technology possible or necessary necessary.. "ne of the #ey factors is behaioral modernity of modernity of the highly deeloped brain of brain of Homo sapiens capable sapiens capable of abstract reasoning reasoning,, language language,, introspection introspection,, and problem soling. soling . !he adent of agriculture resulted in lifestyle changes from nomadic lifestyles to ones lied in homes, with domesticated animals, and land farmed using more aried and sophisticated tools. Art, architecture, music and religion eoled oer the course of the prehistoric periods. 2. $ndustrial Age- !he Industrial Age is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organi%ation that began around 1&'( in )reat *ritain and later in other countries, characteri%ed chie+y by the replacement of hand tools with power-drien machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments. hile its commonly belieed belieed that the $ndustrial Age was supplanted by the $nformation Age in Age in the late 2(th century, a iew thats become common since the eolutions of 1/0/,, as of 2(1 electric power generation is still based mostly 1/0/ on fossil fuels and fuels and much of the !hird the !hird orld orld economy economy is still based on manufacturing manufacturing.. !hus it is debatable whether we hae left the $ndustrial Age already or are still in it and in the process of reaching the $nformation Age. . lectronic AgeAge- !he lectronic Age began when electronic e3uipment, including computers came into use.
4. ew $nformation Age- !he Age- !he New Information Age 6also #nown as the 7omputer Age, 8igital Age, or New Media Age9 is a period in human history characteri%ed by the shift from traditional industry that the $ndustrial eolution brought through industriali%ation, to an economy based on information computeri%ation.
