information age

noun

, (sometimes initial capital letters)

1. a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.

information age

noun

1. a time when large amounts of information are widely available to many people, largely through computer technology

Word History and Origins

Origin of information age¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

The information age of late has been more effective at fomenting discord than advancing enlightenment, exacerbating social inequities and economic inequalities rather than transcending them.

From MIT Technology Review

What oil was to the industrial age, data is to the information age.

From Time

“Watching the gulf of inequality expand in the information age.”

From Freakonomics

A lot of the questions I’ve studied are related to things I worked on and saw firsthand, working in poor communities, working in places undergoing political upheaval, watching the gulf of inequality expand in the information age.

From Freakonomics

This surprising result is a cornerstone of the modern digital information age, where the bit reigns supreme as the universal currency of information.

From Quanta Magazine

Swift and company know how visible even these decisions are in the information age.

From The Daily Beast

Before the modern information age, there was a sort of justified ignorance.

From The Daily Beast

Sadly for the NRA, we are in the Information Age, and the truth is starting to regularly get past their efforts to thwart it.

From The Daily Beast

Lincoln, however, proved that it was possible to do both, even in an information age.

From The Daily Beast

Benkler, a defense expert witness, testified, however, that Manning's leaks were proportional to the Information Age he lives in.

From The Daily Beast

We are moving from an industrial age built on gears and sweat to an information age demanding skills and learning and flexibility.

From Project Gutenberg

Tenth, we must bring the power of the Information Age into all our schools.

From Project Gutenberg