information age
Knowledge-driven period
The information age is the current era of human history, characterized by the shift from traditional industry to an economy based on information technology.
Beginning roughly in the late twentieth century with the rise of computers and the internet, it marks a period when access to and manipulation of information became the primary drivers of economic and social change.
We live in the information age, where data is the new oil.
- digitalOf discrete data
- internetInterconnected computer systems
- computerElectronic calculating device
- technologyApplied scientific methods
- dataFacts for analysis
big data · cloud computing · silicon · connectivity · networks · cyberspace · dotcom · bandwidth · online · wireless · smartphones · social media · bytes · digital native · revolution · knowledge economy · global · instantaneous
- Computing Erasdigital age, vacuum tube era
- cultural trendstrends, fads, movements, cultural shifts, social norms
- economiesmarket economy, command economy, mixed economy, barter economy, cash economy
- modernitymodernity, modernization, internet, electricity, globalization
- post-industrialservice economy, knowledge economy, deindustrialization, service sector, knowledge workers
- cultural erasRenaissance, Victorian era, enlightenment, digital age, jazz age
information ageindustrial revolution
Rapid economic mechanization period
industrial era · machine age · Stone Age · Bronze Age · Iron Age
information, inform, informer, informant, informed, uninformed, informing, informative, misinform