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Introduction

Blockchainized Bachelor’s Thesis

Blockchainized Bachelor’s Thesis – Initial Brainstorm

Thesis

1.Abstract

2.Preface

3.Introduction

4.Definitions of terms and premises

4.1.Information

4.2.Information explosion

4.3.Information age

Sources

1.Battling Information Overload in the Information Age

2.1.The knowledge-attention-gap: Do we underestimate the problem of information overload in knowledge management? pt.1

2.2.The knowledge-attention-gap: Do we underestimate the problem of information overload in knowledge management? pt. 2

3.Database Research faces the Information Explosion

4.The experience of mobile information overload: struggling between needs and constraints

5.Longer online reviews are not necessarily better

6.An ant-colony based approach for real-time implicit collaborative information seeking

7.A psychological framework to enable effective cognitive processing in the design of emergency management information systems

Case study: Interview

1.First draft

 

4.3. Information age

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Information age practically changes all aspects of civilization. Gradually, it changes the way economics works, it transforms the very governments, it changes healthcare models, it changes the education systems and much more. The birth of the information age is associated with the surge of digitization that occurred after the last information explosion [26]. The development and growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has created a very unique times. A society living in it must be knowledge-based in order to survive in new economic incentives. This means that individuals that are part of it must be informationally active or those that are informationally active will ultimately succeed. ICT also drastically reduces transaction costs for both buyers and sellers. Thus, the information age enables the companies providing products or services to maximize their effectiveness [27]. Therefore, the information society (see chapter with the same title – or rather the very next article), which helps to define the information time, is characteristic for the information age.

 

From these theses necessarily follows that at various locations of our planet the information age will be in a slightly different stage of its development and somewhere it may not be present at all yet. Already one decade ago, the popular press declared the arrival of the information period. Some even think that there were multiple information ages in the civilization’s history [1]. I categorically reject this claim with the following argument. All the previous civilizations have evolved gradually. When iron was firstly discovered and humanity began to learn how to process it, it was not the beginning of the "first iron age" - it was just the beginning of irone age as we know it. Over time, when civilizations were forced to improve their art of iron processing due to wars, they did not move after their discoveries into new and completely different iron ages from those in which other civilizations were at the moment. They merely just learned how to make better use of the resources that were associated with that time. They just developed faster than other civilizations. The same applies to the information age.

 

Sources

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1.KORTH, Henry F., SILBERSCHATZ, Abraham. Database Research faces the Information Explosion. Communications of the ACM. 1997, vol. 40, no. 2, s. 139-143

26.Hilbert, M. (2015). Digital Technology and Social Change [Open Online Course at the University of California] (freely available). Retrieved from https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/949415

27."Technology and Workforce: Comparison between the Information Revolution and the Industrial Revolution" by Mathias Humbert, University of California, Berkeley

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