Information Age

(proper noun)

The current era, characterized 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 endeavors related to some physical, man-made process or product.

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Examples of Information Age in the following topics:

  • Postindustrial Societies: The Birth of the Information Age

    • In the "Information Age," individuals can transfer and have instant access to information, leading to a profound economic transformation.
    • An example of the Information Age is how virtually every individual uses the Internet in some way at their place of work.
    • The Information Age formed by capitalizing on computer microminiaturization advances.
    • This graph shows the drastic increase in Internet usage, indicative of the pervasiveness of the Information Age.
    • Examine the impact the Information Age has on the accessibility and breadth of information available to society

  • Work and Technology

    • The Information Age has impacted the workforce through automation and computerization, resulting in higher productivity and fewer jobs.
    • The Information Age has impacted the workforce in several ways.
    • There is another way in which the Information Age has impacted the workforce: automation and computerization have resulted in higher productivity coupled with net job loss.
    • Discuss the shift in the economy from mechanization to automation due to the Information Age and its impact on the modern industrial worker

  • The Changing Face of the Workplace

    • The Information Age has impacted the workforce in several ways.
    • There is another way in which the Information Age has impacted the workforce: automation and computerization have resulted in higher productivity .
    • Examine the impact of the Information Age on the workforce, from automation to polarization

  • Ominous Trends in the U.S.

    • Examine how the Information Age is leading to higher productivity but fewer jobs, which lead to polarization between incomes of the rich and poor

  • Age and Race

  • The Role of Age

    • Age is an important factor in U.S. politics because there is a correlation between age and rates of political participation and because it is a determining factor in the issues people care about.

  • Societal Development

    • Full dependency on domestic crops and animals (i.e. when wild resources contributed a nutritionally insignificant component to the diet) did not occur until the Bronze Age.
    • By the early 1800s agricultural practices, particularly careful selection of hardy strains and cultivars, had so improved that yield per land unit was many times that seen in the Middle Ages and before, especially in the largely virgin lands of North and South America.
    • Post-industrial societies are often marked by:an increase in the size of the service sector or jobs that perform services rather than creating goods (industry)either the outsourcing of or extensive use of mechanization in manufacturingan increase in the amount of information technology, often leading to an Information Ageinformation, knowledge, and creativity are seen as the new raw materials of the economy

  • Age and Gender

  • Gatekeeping

    • Information moves step by step through channels.
    • Information must pass a "gate" to move from one channel to the next.

  • Age

    • Age is measured chronologically, and a person's birthday is often an important event.