digital age
Era of screens
The digital age is the era characterized by widespread use of computers, the internet, and electronic technology—roughly from the late twentieth century onward.
It marks a shift from analog and mechanical systems to digital information: Growing up in the digital age, she never knew a world without smartphones.
Sometimes called the information age. (Capitalized Digital Age appears in formal contexts.)
- technologyApplied scientific methods
- artificial intelligenceMachines mimicking human thought
- cloud computingInternet-delivered digital infrastructure
- cybersecurityProtection of digital systems
- internetInterconnected computer systems
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- historical erasMiddle Ages, Renaissance, Victorian era, Medieval, Tudor era
- Computing Erasvacuum tube era
- game historyarcade era
- cultural erasRenaissance, Victorian era, enlightenment, industrial revolution, roaring twenties
- technologyelectronics, computing, computer, internet, social media
- digital societysocial networks, internet, internet culture, online communities, connectivity
digital ageStone Age
Era of knapped tools
Bronze Age · Iron Age · industrial revolution · medieval period · antiquity
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