Digital Age

Internet epoch now

The Digital Age names the current historical period defined by digital technology and instant global communication.

Like other era names (Bronze Age, Industrial Revolution), it marks a fundamental shift in how humans live and work: The Digital Age has transformed everything from commerce to courtship. (Lowercase digital age is the informal variant.)

Related

computersProgrammable electronic devices
technologyApplied scientific methods
tech giantsLargest digital corporations
social mediaOnline content-sharing platforms
artificial intelligenceMachines mimicking human thought

viral content · internet · e-commerce · automation · cloud computing · cybersecurity · cyberspace · online identity · big data · gig economy · online education · streaming · misinformation · click bait · information overload · smartphone · remote work · telemedicine

Categories

historical erasMiddle Ages, Renaissance, Victorian era, Medieval, Tudor era
time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
agesinfant, child, kid, teen, adult

Opposites

technological era

Digital AgeIndustrial Age

Period of factory-based manufacturing

Bronze Age · Stone Age · Iron Age · medieval period · Industrial Revolution

information medium

Digital Ageoral tradition

Culture passed by speech

historical periodization

Digital AgeDark Ages

Post-Roman European decline

Middle Ages · Old World · Age of Exploration

Family

age, digital, digitize, digitally, digitization, digitized, digitizing, digitizes, digitalis

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G