Information Age

English

Proper noun

Information Age

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.

   Synonyms: cyberage, digital age, (informal) info age

   • 1977 June 9, George McGovern, “The Information Age”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2001 August 7, Dennis Overbye, “Time of Growing Pains for Information Age”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 68:

     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.

Translations

current era

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信息時代／信息时代 (zh) (xìnxī shídài)

• Finnish: digiaika
• French: ère de l’information f
• Georgian: ინფორმაციის ეპოქა (inpormaciis eṗoka), ინფორმაციის ხანა (inpormaciis xana), ინფორმაციის ერა (inpormaciis era)
• German: Informationszeitalter n
• Irish: Ré na Faisnéise f
• Italian: era dell'informazione f
• Portuguese: Era da Informação f, era da informação f
• Spanish: era de la información f, era digital f, era informática f
• Ukrainian: інформаційна епоха f (informacijna epoxa), інформаційна ера f (informacijna era)

Further reading

• Information Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia