informate

present singular third person informates · participle present informating · participle past informated · past informated

1. uncommonTo use information technology in a production process or an organization to translate activities and events into shareable information.

   The duality of information technology—its capacity to automate and to informate—provides a vantage point from which to consider these choices.

   1988, Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine, New York: Basic Books, page 390

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   Whether modern organizations turn in the direction of an automated or informated workplace, the use of information systems allows information to assume a normative cast.

   2001, Richard Stivers, Peter Stirk, Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 186