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Information Age en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. The current era, characterised by the increasing importance and availability of information (especially by means of computers), as opposed to previous eras (such as the Industrial Age) in which most endeavours related to some physical process or product.
    • This is the information age, in which, we are told, biology is defined by a three-billion-letter instruction manual called the genome and human thoughts are analogous to digital bits flowing through a computer. 2001 August 7, Dennis Overbye, “Time of Growing Pains for Information Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • The resources of the information age enormously increase the potential productivity of such investigations. This situation will improve as more and more data becomes available. 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 68:
    • Just as we were beginning to feel comfortable about living in the space age, bold headlines in an I.B.M. advertisement told us “there's growing agreement that” we now are in the information age. 1977 June 9, George McGovern, “The Information Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Synonyms

cyberage · digital age · info age

Translations (22)

is stafræn menning (current era) · es era de la información (current era) · ga Ré na Faisnéise (current era) · ka ინფორმაციის ერა (current era) · es era informática (current era) · es era digital (current era) · it era dell'informazione (current era) · ka ინფორმაციის ეპოქა (current era) · uk інформаційна ера (current era) · ka ინფორმაციის ხანა (current era) · sv informationsåldern (current era) · cmn 信息時代 /信息时代 (current era) · id Zaman Embaran (current era) · fr ère de l'information (current era) · fi digiaika (current era) · pt era da informação (current era) · da informationsalderen (current era) · ja 情報化時代 (current era) · uk інформаційна епоха (current era) · id Zaman Informasi (current era) · de Informationszeitalter (current era) · pt Era da Informação (current era)