Information Age

During the period where information was moved on horses and ships, people were very glad at least they received information from distant places. It was in year 1835, when Samuel Morse changes this kind of information age by translating messages into electric signals. This is made possible through the use of telegraph, a communication employing a code signals consisting of current pulses sent over wires. The emergence of this new networking technology made known with its numerous applications, and in many ways becomes a good partner in the pursuit of a modern man for progress. When it was found more helpful to the needs of a demanding life of a modern man, the human race once more was put into a challenge to come up with a new device that can deliver more information needed by humans in solving problem with the shortest possible time. With this kind of direction that the world intends to happen, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both discovered the possibility of voice transmission using the telephone in the early 1870s. Although telephone were developed by different men at so nearly the same time that there are disputes about who invented it first, Alexander Graham Bell was able to officially made it known as his own by applying patent in 1876. With the coming of telephone, more distant cities became linked through commerce. The world's information processing system was getting better and the chances of success that truly the information was received by specific person/businesses without a delay were highly appreciated. With the coming of telephone in used, the world is accelerating faster toward an array of constantly-improving. The beginning of 1950s, technical men used the newly invented transistor simply as a substitute for bulky vacuum tubes. Only later did designers realize that the transistor could revolutionize electrical engineering by providing a tiny, universal electronic component that could be designed, arranged and set-up into integrated circuits and programmed to perform millions of different instructions. The integration of large numbers of tiny transistors into a small chip (Integrated Circuit or commonly known as IC) was an enormous improvement over putting together manually the different electronic components in a printed circuit board. Integrated circuits then become a commonly used part in all electronic equipments and have revolutionized the world of science and technology, especially in the field of computer application. As a result, the upgrading to a higher standard of the First-generation computer which was born using the transistorized electronic components instead of the vacuum tube in the late 1950s and early 60s, followed by the second-generation computer that appears smaller, used less power, and could perform a million operations per second was easily made possible. Then as technology progresses, the third-generation integrated-circuit machines of the mid-1960s and 1970s that were even smaller and were far more reliable, emerged and developed rapidly. The 1980s and 90s were characterized by the development of the microprocessor and the evolution of increasingly smaller but powerful computers, such as the personal computer we have had been enslave of using much of our time today, searching of something interesting that come into view with great speed into the computer screen. To make the computer already developed will improve further in function, a computer programs have been developed that allow voice communications and text messages to travel with great speed from one side to the other end, covering a more distant location normally was not possible in the past. The programs, which call for a computer as absolutely necessary, is equipped with a telephone or cable modem, microphone, and speakers, which compresses the voice and text message into digital signals. This give birth to the Internet, a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange of information. With the coming of Internet, things are riding us faster and faster. Rapid browsing of information is a modern man attitude in gathering information, with the style of continuously jumping from one topic to the next topic quickly. The question is: How do we make better sense out of this information age? How do we begin to use modern technology by not just creating an ocean of data, but rather on how to improve in quality, value and application, about our knowledge of this data? How do we take information, information about the way society functions, lives, changes– and arrange it in such a way to make it possibly helpful for human utilization. These days, we are a society that are so very busy and confuse with a flood of information from a wide array of sources. But don’t we know that these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests of individuals that own them. Usually these sources of information is owned directly by large multinational corporations, and through their boards of directors who are connected with other major global corporations, super rich people, influential and privilege people of the world. Having access and connections with these information’s, they are the forces at work in the human social world, and there various connections can influenced and changed the world into what it is, and have the power to exercise control where it is going. Plans are made, certainly, by them, in publishing ideas, and controlling commerce and trade of the world, keep within bounds to their inner circle only. To summarize in few words, through information available to them, humanity is faced with the dominating threat by few people of the world, which has at their hands the technology to impose a truly global system of control. This transformative force has largely been driven by information operations or information warfare. One best application of information age is on warfare. Information warfare against enemies on the battlefields is carried out by military personnel, designed according to plan in the spreading of propaganda, outright lying and deliberate deceptions channeled through the mainstream press and media outlets. How about the global economy, how information age support this area? In the economic stand point of view, information is being controlled by the super rich people, those people who are able to meet the multi-million dollar investment, got so many investment opportunities that are readily accessible, but not to most businessman who has the skills and initiative to establish a business. They're getting good advice; they're getting access to business information that other people don't have the opportunity and privilege to avail. To such a degree, even we are at the crossroads of the most serious economic and social crisis in modern history; the super rich are doing very well even in the presence of complicated circumstances at a given time, to accomplish a money making success in whatever business they are dealing with. How about the ordinary people in the street, in the factory, in the farm, how will they benefit with the information that may bring them to success or wealth just like the super rich people? As a matter of regret, we have become more knowledgeable and experience in gathering information but hardly can we effectively put it into a useful application. We are proud to announce that we are new class of generation who almost has the answer in all field of learning provided by the Internet medium. By contrast, this information sources turns out to be a place of something that predominantly entertains rather than of learning. In other words, this vast information we gathered, with a shallow understanding of the subject matter, will just ended up impractical in our everyday life. To be more specific, these vast amounts of information we harnessed every day, only overloaded our simple mind. However, to a capitalist and Multinational Corporation, this wealth of information is accelerating faster toward a direction of creating amazing technological advancement and business opportunities for them. Each day, technology improves, information exchange speeds up, and state of the art electronic gadget, surprises people of all walks in life. But sad to say, this kind of thing to happen is not new. This had been said before, only thing, people in the past did not pay attention to listen and give importance on this announcement. This is what had been said before, “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased Daniel 12:4. At the time of the end, that is, near its fulfillment, many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Is this what is happening now? Take notice that the arrival of new inventions today, at the fastest rate in history, is changing life daily. Worldwide travel via ocean liners and commercial aircraft has afforded people the opportunity to reach distant places in short spaces of time. Hundreds of airplanes move passengers to all parts of the globe daily. Events taking place halfway around the world are broadcast the same day on the evening news. The internet enables people everywhere to be instantly informed of the latest developments everywhere. All of this has served to make the statement of Daniel to be true. Jesus explained, in plain, clear language, the key events of the last days preceding and leading to the time of His Second Coming. Remember, Jesus’ disciples asked Him privately, “Tell us, when these things shall be? And what shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world? Christ directly paraphrased Daniel in the New Testament Olivet prophecy. This is where He answered the disciples’ question about the sequence of events to occur at “the end of the age.” He reinforced Daniel’s statements about those events by saying, “Whoso reads, let him understand” (Matt. 24:15). When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place. We are more than ever slaves of technology, connected to computers and cell phones in our everyday life. But we never give much attention as to what Daniel’s prophecy is saying. By the time we heard and encountered this word of warning, we quickly reacted what is your religion. Supposed to be the proper way of answering, what does it mean; instead we put color and put our religion to answer this question. Civilization has gone from the “Nuclear Age” to the “Space Age” and to the “Information Age” in a little more than a half century. Maybe it’s time to consider this word of warning while we still have time to prepare. God Bless.