Information Age
After the Agrarian society, and the Industrial revolution, the Information age is the third big epoch in the history of economics. In the information age, information has become a prime economic good, and there are industries that transform information form one form to another. The changer from industrialized society to the society of the information age is called Digital Revolution.
Information Age Media
A Pennsylvania state historical marker in Philadelphia cites the creation of ENIAC, the "first all-purpose digital computer", in 1946 as the beginning of the Information Age.
A visualization of the various routes through a portion of the Internet (created via The Opte Project)
A timeline of major milestones of the Information Age, from the first message sent by the Internet protocol suite to global Internet access
A university computer lab containing many desktop PCs
Hilbert & López (2011). The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information. Science, 332(6025), 60–65.
Three stages of the Information Age
Stages of development expressed as Kondratiev waves
A visualization of the various routes through a portion of the Internet
April 1977: Apple II.
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