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The Information Age [a] is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the Industrial Revolution, to an economy centered on information technology. [2]
James Gleick talks about The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood on Bookbits radio. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the current Information Age. It was on The New York Times best-seller list for three weeks following its ...
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture is a trilogy of books by sociologist Manuel Castells: The Rise of the Network Society (1996), The Power of Identity (1997), and End of Millennium (1998). The second edition was heavily revised; volume one is 40 percent different from the first edition.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age is a biography of Claude Shannon, an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". [1] [2] The biography was written by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, and published by Simon & Schuster in 2017.
The Information Society intends to be the most encompassing in that an economy is a subset of a society. The Information Age is somewhat limiting, in that it refers to a 30-year period between the widespread use of computers and the knowledge economy, rather than an emerging economic order. The knowledge era is about the nature of the content ...
The Sovereign Individual: How to survive and thrive during the collapse of the welfare state is a 1997 [a] non-fiction book by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson.Later republished on 26 August 1999 by Touchstone with the new subtitle Mastering the Transition to the Information Age.
After the WMAP observations of the cosmic microwave background, information was released in 2011 of the work done by the Planck Surveyor, estimating the Age of the universe to 13.8 billion years old (a 100 million years older than previously thought).
Technological developments included the development of airplanes and space exploration, nuclear technology, advancement in genetics, and the dawning of the Information Age. [ 31 ] Major political developments included the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , [ 32 ] two world wars, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] and the Cold War . [ 35 ]