AVERAGE STS

Who proposed the theory of Information Age?

• James Messenger
• Claude Shannon

• Robert Kahn

• Richard Wurman

All of the choices refer to the age when information became effortlessly accessible through publications, except

• Information Age
• Digital Age
• New Media Age
• Internet Age

He called this problem as “Information Anxiety”.

• Richard Wurman
• James Messenger

• Charles Babbage

• Blaise Pascal

It is defined as the period where due to the abundance of information, the society started to have difficulty in managing and collecting information.

• Information Anxiety
• Information Age

• Internet Age

• Ice Age

It began when computer specialists exchanged information from a main computer to a remote terminal.

• Internet Age
• Information Age

• Digital Age

• New Media Age

The exchange of information was done by breaking down data into small packets of information that could be reassembled at the receiving end.

• Packet Switching
• ARPANET

• Pocket Switching

• Globalization

He invented the Pascaline Machine.

• Blaise Pascal
• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

• James Messenger

He invented and patented the first practical telephone.

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Samuel Morse

• Alan Turing

• Johannes Gutenberg

He is considered to be the “Father of Theoretical Computer and Artificial Intelligence (AI)”

• Alan Turing
• James Messenger

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

It can be considered as a model of a general-purpose computer.

• Turing's Machine
• Printing Press

• Computer

• Telephone