information age
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- noun
- /ˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃən eɪdʒ/
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era de la información
- The information age has transformed how we communicate, making instant messaging and video calls commonplace.
- the digital information age
- the challenge of the information age
- today's information age
As you heard from some of the speeches earlier, we live in an information age.
- As you heard from some of the speeches earlier, we live in an information age.
- So simply said defined benefit is industrial age pensions and defined contribution is in information age pensions.
- So from your view, what do you see going, going to happen for office buildings and large shopping centers given the information age we're going into?
- And now we've reached a point with the information age where, you know, it's kind of nothing is secret anymore.
- Yeah, and has a lot to do with the later, you know, information age, invention of computers and very successful.
Examples
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The information age may herald a new way to fight the system.
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Summing up: one of the main products of the information age is disinformation.
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America is rapidly moving out of the industrial age and into the information age.
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Invest in the technology that helps East European nations move from the industrial age to the information age.
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Clearly, in an information age, a critical component is going to be computer software.
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Continued emphasis on industrial recruitment, the traditional southern economic development strategy, is inappropriate in the information age.
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A continuing problem for Canada during this information age is Canada's desire to maintain its own cultural identity.
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Much of that has been facilitated by and driven by information-age technology.
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However, the mediums for creating, recording, and sharing information have exponentially expanded in the digital information age.
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The centuries-old processes of globalization have so intensified during the information age that borders and identities become blurred and intertwined.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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3.4
The present time when people share common ideas and ways of life
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The time now with the common ideas and ways people live
How Modern
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a historical period defined by the prominence of information and information technologies' is directly and transparently built from 'information' (knowledge/data) modifying 'age' (a period in history). This noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so an average B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Information age paints a picture of a time when information, like facts and data, is the main tool and age means 'time'. Imagine people using computers and digital messages instead of old machines and paper, so information age means the modern 'time' when computers and data shape how we live and work.