information age

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.

information age

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of information age¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

The firm describes Oracle as an “AI juggernaut for the information age” that is “maniacally focused on database innovation.”

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Or, as Green Day sang, you are part of the information age of hysteria.

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One of the major features of the information age, as you call it, is social media.

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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.

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"The government cannot get into my family WhatsApp group. There are some channels which you cannot break into in the information age that we live in," she added.

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