Information Age

English Proper noun Information Age 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. en cyberage digital age informal info age en w:George McGovern The Information Age The New York Times 1977-06-09 https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/09/archives/the-information-age.html 0362-4331 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20231202115528/http://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/09/archives/the-information-age.html 2 December 2023 en Dennis Overbye Time of Growing Pains for Information Age The New York Times 2001-08-07 https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/07/science/time-of-growing-pains-for-information-age.html 0362-4331 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251013142539/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/07/science/time-of-growing-pains-for-information-age.html 13 October 2025 en 2014 James Lambert A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson' International Journal of Lexicography 27 1 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: cmn 信息時代 xìnxī shídài Danish: da informationsalderen c Finnish: fi digiaika French: fr ère de l'information f Georgian: ka ინფორმაციის ეპოქა, ka ინფორმაციის ხანა, ka ინფორმაციის ერა German: de Informationszeitalter n Icelandic: is stafræn menning Indonesian: id Zaman Embaran, id Zaman Informasi Irish: ga Ré na Faisnéise f Italian: it era dell'informazione f Japanese: ja 情報化時代 じょうほうかじだい, jouhoukajidai Portuguese: pt Era da Informação f, pt era da informação f Spanish: es era de la información f, es era digital f, es era informática f Swedish: sv informationsåldern c Ukrainian: uk інформаційна епоха f, uk інформаційна ера f Further reading