information age

American  

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.

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information age British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of information age

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

"We live in the information age, yet we store our knowledge in media that are astonishingly short-lived," says Alexander Kirnbauer.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

The Industrial Revolution, the information age, and the early digital economy all show what happens when we let innovation raise the baseline: more opportunity, more discovery, more unexpected flashes of genius.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

Which means that Trump’s close call was the first such event to take place in the age of cyberspace, and the first of its kind for this particular era of the information age.

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2024

This led Montell to further investigate how cognitive biases, which are the errors in thinking that occur when people are processing information that affects decision-making, are clashing with the information age.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2024

The information age has created a stickiness problem.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell