digital age

alternative Digital Age

1. uncountableThe current era, characterised by the widespread and increasing use of digital technology in society.

   We are born in the digital age; we use our phones every minute; we communicate through digital tools.

   2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1086

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   But law enforcement agencies have to find a legal and ethical way to stay ahead of technology, rather than stand in the way of it. Trying to block advances in the digital age is futile.

   1998 July 6, “Privacy in the Digital Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   All this data will prove fascinating to sociologists, archaeologists and anthropologists studying the dawn of the digital age. For them, everyday life can be just as interesting as epoch-defining moments.

   2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist

   Synonyms: cyberage, Information Age

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of digital age.

   The Matrix constructs a new discourse of race in the Digital Age, one that plugs us in to our own dreamworlds about cyberutopias and cyberfutures.

   2002, Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes […] , Routledge, →ISBN