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固有名詞

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.

   Synonyms: cyberage, digital age, (informal) info age

   • 1977 June 9, George McGovern, “The Information Age”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2001 August 7, Dennis Overbye, “Time of Growing Pains for 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.

   • 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 68:

     The resources of the information age enormously increase the potential productivity of such investigations. This situation will improve as more and more data becomes available.