The document summarizes the evolution of traditional media to new media across four ages: 1) Pre-Industrial Age (before 1700s) - People communicated through cave paintings, clay tablets, papyrus, and the printing press using wood blocks. 2) Industrial Age (1700s-1930s) - Mass production of newspapers and books emerged through advances like the printing press. The telephone, motion pictures, and telegraph were invented. 3) Electronic Age (1930s-1980s) - Inventions like the transistor radio, television, mainframe computers, and personal computers facilitated long-distance communication and computing. 4) Information Age (1900s-2000s) - The