Meanings
- 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.
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.
2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 682 more examples
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.
1977 June 9, George McGovern, “The Information Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSNThis 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.
2001 August 7, Dennis Overbye, “Time of Growing Pains for Information Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: cyberage, digital age, info age
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe 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.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 信息時代 /信息时代
- 信息時代 /信息时代 (xìnxī shídài)current era
Danish informationsalderen
- informationsalderencurrent era
Finnish digiaika
- digiaikacurrent era
French ère de l'information
- ère de l'informationcurrent era
German Informationszeitalter
- Informationszeitaltercurrent era
Icelandic stafræn menning
- stafræn menningcurrent era
Indonesian Zaman Embaran, Zaman Informasi
- Zaman Embarancurrent era
- Zaman Informasicurrent era
Irish Ré na Faisnéise
- Ré na Faisnéisecurrent era
Italian era dell'informazione
- era dell'informazionecurrent era
Japanese 情報化時代
- 情報化時代 (jouhoukajidai)current era
Portuguese Era da Informação, era da informação
- Era da Informaçãocurrent era
- era da informaçãocurrent era
Spanish era de la información, era digital
- era de la informacióncurrent era
- era digitalcurrent era
- era informáticacurrent era
Swedish informationsåldern
- informationsålderncurrent era
Ukrainian інформаційна епоха, інформаційна ера
- інформаційна епоха (informacijna epoxa)current era
- інформаційна ера (informacijna era)current era
Cite this entry
Information Age. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Information%20Age
“Information Age.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Information%20Age. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Information Age,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Information%20Age.
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