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Information Age

Information Age proper noun: the current era, characterised by the increasing importance and availability of information (especially by means of computers), as opposed to previous eras (such as the Industrial Age) in which most endeavours related to some physical process or product.

Proper noun

Information Age

  1. The current era, characterised by the increasing importance and availability of information (especially by means of computers), as opposed to previous eras (such as the Industrial Age) in which most endeavours related to some physical process or product.
    • Just as we were beginning to feel comfortable about living in the space age, bold headlines in an I.B.M. advertisement told us “there's growing agreement that” we now are in the information age.1977 June 9, George McGovern, “The Information Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • This is the information age, in which, we are told, biology is defined by a three-billion-letter instruction manual called the genome and human thoughts are analogous to digital bits flowing through a computer.2001 August 7, Dennis Overbye, “Time of Growing Pains for Information Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Information Age meaning in Indonesian

Information Age in Indonesian

current era
Zaman Embaran, Zaman Informasi

Synonyms of Information Age

Questions about Information Age

What does Information Age mean?
Information Age means the current era, characterised by the increasing importance and availability of information (especially by means of computers), as opposed to previous eras (such as the Industrial Age) in which most endeavours related to some physical process or product.
What is Information Age in Indonesian?
Information Age in Indonesian is Zaman Embaran, Zaman Informasi. See Information Age meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is Information Age?
Information Age is a proper noun.

Words near Information Age in the dictionary

  1. informaticist
  2. informaticists
  3. informatics
  4. informating
  5. information
  6. Information Age
  7. information and communications technologies
  8. information and communications technology
  9. information arbitrage
  10. information assurance
  11. information deficit model

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