information age

American  

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.

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information age British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of information age

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

"We live in the information age, yet we store our knowledge in media that are astonishingly short-lived," says Alexander Kirnbauer.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

In a cluttered information age, where attention is a prized and scarce commodity, Nuzzi and Lizza—with their perfectly counterpoised surnames—have somehow broken through.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

Which means that Trump’s close call was the first such event to take place in the age of cyberspace, and the first of its kind for this particular era of the information age.

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2024

But being able to stomach the cognitive dissonance of life on Earth — and in the information age — is something that I think will help save us all.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2024

Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik