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informate en · VERB

Etymology

Coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 1988, from information, modelled on automate.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) To use information technology in a production process or an organization to translate activities and events into shareable information.
   • Whether modern organizations turn in the direction of an automated or informated workplace, the use of information systems allows information to assume a normative cast. 2001, Richard Stivers, Peter Stirk, Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 186:
   • The duality of information technology—its capacity to automate and to informate—provides a vantage point from which to consider these choices. 1988, Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine, New York: Basic Books, page 390:

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