Information Age

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The information age, also known as the computer age or digital age, is after the agrarian society and the industrial age, the third epoch of ( economic and ) forms of society dar.

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Featured is this phase of the centrality of information as a commodity and commodity, which was made possible by the electronic data processing and global information flows. The importance of the production of material goods is instead lost more and more crucial for the value instead is the intelligence that is plugged into a good.

The transition from the industrial age to the information age began in the 1970s and 1980s with the growing importance of communicative networks. He is, however, not yet complete, although many authors view the period around 1990 as a definitive beginning of the information age.

The sociologist Manuel Castells explains the term as follows:

" Information age [ ... ] refers to a historical period of human societies. The based on microelectronic -based information and communication technologies and genetic engineering technological paradigm that characterized this era, replaced or overlaid the technological paradigm of the industrial age, which is based primarily on the production and distribution of energy. "

The term is closely linked to that of postmodernism.