Do we live in "The age of information"
For example, bronze age, stone age.
What year will you say that we are currently living in now.
I think it is "The age of information". Because computers and digitalization is basically becoming a part of our life.
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2013.Originally Posted by Niale
We live in an age where we have more access to free information that nobody utilizes because they're too lazy to look stuff up.
Not year, i ment time period. ^^2013.
But you are right.
I wonder how it will develop in about 100 years
Medicine better have gone up sufficiently because if I'm still alive at 124 I better have good medicare.I wonder how it will develop in about 100 years
This is how I feel, this is definitely the 'age of information' because since the birth of commercial internet usage we can read about/watch/gather information on more or less anything we like whereas before it was obviously a lot more difficult.I wonder how it will develop in about 100 years
'The age of better information' is what I'm interested in, the means of gathering it that'll come long after we're all in the ground. I like to think it'll be like Futurama with proper virtual reality situations, like actually being there for reenactments of key moment in World War 2 so you're not just using you're imagination like we do now whilst reading about the horrors of war but actually experiencing it like we were really there when it happened.
The same with shopping online, I honestly believe humanity will walk around a virtual 'Amazon Mall' one day.
There's only 11 days left...2013.
Anyway, "Information Age" seems about right in the time period we're currently in, considering that information can be reached so easily nowadays because of the Internet and up-to-the-minute news.
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The defining feature of our 'age' is not the ability to find information, but the ability to create 'information.' Anyone can do it, and most people do, and it doesn't need to be accurate or meaningful.
Every age is the information age because we are constantly discovering new information and developing new technologies to help us advance as a species and we will continue to do that until we die out.
I don't really understand labeling the current times as "the age of information." Every new age can't be the age of information. It doesn't make sense. A hundred years from now, they won't call 2013 the age of information. They'll be teleporting to their boss' floating residence for dinner and feeling sorry for us suckers in the 2010's for using cars and bicycles and that will be the age of information, for a moment in time.
The Age of Apat... meh.
Perhaps a better name for this current "Information Age" would be the "Digital Age", or "Computer Age", or perhaps "New Media Age" Take your pick.
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The Age of Information is probably most accurate, but it's also an age of distraction, perhaps even more. With the amount of entertainment available to us at any given time, people take the information side of the internet for granted and instead use it to distract themselves from what is happening in the world. The internet can be a great source of information, but it's not like we're in an age where we are an enlightened society absorbing all this information enthusiastically. It seems that your average internet user just stays in the loop of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter and doesn't care to look much beyond that.
But all of those same things can apply to my point, because the digital age and new media will also advance. Computer age may perhaps be legit because I have no idea how we'll advance with computerized technology in the future, but we will probably not be using the same systems we are now.Perhaps a better name for this current "Information Age" would be the "Digital Age", or "Computer Age", or perhaps "New Media Age" Take your pick.
"Computer" doesn't encompass all of "information", though. It's just a device. It would be like calling the 80's the VCR Age.
The Internet Age?
I was going to post what Spuuky said - we are becoming increasingly encouraged to create and share our own content, whether it takes the form of a short film, blog post, podcast, photo essay, etsy store or even just an "inspired tweet". On one hand that sort of access is incredibly empowering, but on the other hand there is the risk of narcissism and the need for validation taking precedent over privacy and quality control.
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