The Social Dimension of Knowledge and Technological Evolution
The Social Dimension of Knowledge
The internet network is a dynamic, participatory and collaborative, users are active protagonists. The applications that are used on the internet facilitate the creation and publication of online content. A multitude of social networks have been woven into the internet to exchange information, interact…
Robotics
A robot is a programmable machine capable of executing various functions or complex tasks, including different types of movements to manipulate objects and carry out operations automatically. To design and build robots, it is necessary to combine knowledge of mechanics, electricity, electronics. There are different types of robots depending on their application; these can be industrial, Android, space, mobile, and zoomorphic. Some examples of humanoid robots are Sophia.
Artificial Intelligence
The branch of computing that develops processes that mimic the intelligence of living beings is called artificial intelligence, its main application is the creation of machines for the automation of tasks that require intelligent behavior. Are fully established in fields such as economics, medicine, engineering and informatics.
Digital Natives and Immigrants
Digital natives have grown up surrounded by all kinds of computing devices, they have a high digital competence to use these devices, they are spectators of technological change and have greater difficulty adapting to these tools.
Internet of Things
It refers to the fact that a large part of objects that surround us can be connected, being able to collect information, process it and share it, using M2M (machine to machine) communication. This concept offers a new world of possibilities, such as connected cars, activity bracelets…
Technological Evolution
Distributed
Are set of computers, connected to each other through a network, that work for a common purpose. They allow creating supercomputers by sharing hardware and software resources of different computers to distribute the work and obtain a better use.
Lithography
Is a technique traditionally used in printing and photography. The wavelength of visible light defines the size of the transistors that photolithography can produce, so a new technique known as lithography is being used.
Nanotechnology
The study and development of systems at the scale of atoms and molecules. Nanoelectronics that are aimed at manufacturing electronic devices and computers at tiny scales, especially transistors. Nanobiotechnology which combines nanoscale engineering with biology to manipulate living systems or to manufacture biologically inspired materials at the molecular scale. Nanomaterials, whose properties depend on how the atoms that make them up are arranged.
Quantum Informatics
Bases the operation of computers on quantum properties of the particles, rather than on electrical voltages, as has traditionally been done. Its power lies in the amount of information contained in the qubits or quantum bits.
Bioinformation
Is a field of science in which various disciplines such as biology, informatics and information technology converge.
Collective Knowledge
Users have gone from being passive receivers of information to being collective creators of knowledge.
Collective Intelligent
Is the result of collaboration between many individual or living beings of the same species.
Open Contents
Describes any type of work, such as articles, drawings, audios, videos…, published under the non-restrictive license and in a format that allows it to be copied, distributed and modified.
To the Current Society
The first human being formed a nomadic society, when they began to settle they developed in an agrarian society. At the end of the Middle Ages, cities and the economy resurfaced. A new social class is born, the bourgeoisie. Great advances such as the steam engine emerge and this leads to industrial society. The rapid growth of the service sector and the development of information technologies give rise to the information society, the knowledge society is subsequently created.
Digital Citizenship
Is one that uses ICT to access services such as information, mail… the knowledge society contemplates in its legislation the rights of access and participation on the internet, with the aim of reducing the digital divide.
Technological Evolution
Prehistory and Antiquity
Prehistory was characterized by the use of the materials to satisfy basic needs, such as wood. The abacus was one of the first instruments used to make calculations.
Middle Age
Gutenberg’s modern printing press. In Europe, the Arabic numeral system is adopted and zero begins to be used.
Modern Age
Various mathematicians built machines that performed elementary arithmetic operations like the slide rule; Pascalina, by Pascal; or the universal calculator, by Leibniz.
Contemporary Age
Charles Babbage conceived the differential engine and designed the analytical engine to solve arithmetic problems.