Wat is information age?
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Information Age' is a name given to a period after the industrial age and before the Knowledge Economy. Information Age is a term applied to the period where movement of information became faster than physical movement, more narrowly applying to the 1980s onward. Under conventional economic theory, the Information Age also heralded the era where information was a scarce resource and its capture and distribution generated competitive advantage. Microsoft became one of the largest companies in the world based on its influence in creating the underlying mechanics to facilitate information distribution. It has been estimated that the Information Age lasted from approximately 1971 to 1991. One could argue, though, that it actually began during the later half of the 19th Century with the invention of the telephone and telegraphy. It is often used in conjunction with the term post-industrial society. When information ceased being scarce, the Knowledge Economy commenced. The Knowledge Economy started around 1991 and continued to approximately 2002. The current economic era is defined as the Intangible Economy. In the Intangible Economy, four factors of production - knowledge assets (what people know and put into use), collaboration assets (who people interact with to create value), engagement assets (the level of energy and commitment of people), and time quality (how quickly value is created) are the four key resources from which economic activity and competitive advantage are primarily derived and delivered today. It is helpful to understand that Google (GOOG) is now a serious competitor to Microsoft as it relies on Intangible Economy principles to run its operations.\n\nEarly Information Age\n\nIn 1837 Samuel Morse created a device which converted physical movement into electrical impulses that could travel over large distances. In 1844, telegraphy was used to transmit data along an experimental telegraph line from Washington, DC to Baltimore, Maryland. Slightly more than 20 years later, the first telegraph cables were stretched across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1858, but failed to stay in operation; however, uninterrupted service began in 1866.\n\nBroadcasting\n\nThe information technologies of the 19th century allowed faster and wider dissemination of information than previously possible. However, ultimately such information had to be reduced to the same form which had been the final form for centuries: paper, whose analogs go back to stone and clay tablets. With the development of what was called wireless transmission, when combined with the ability to transmit voice and sound from the telephone, and recording technology, a new medium began to be born, which placed a different final result in the hands of the individual. These technologies would eventually become radio.\nInformation technology\n\nWith recording technologies, transmission, and with early computers, it didn't take very long for scientific advances to merge together into the new field of Information Technology. Information technology is the use of technology to enhance the speed and the efficiency of the transfer of information.\n\nThe information age continues to this day, and technological advances such as mobile phones, high speed connections, Voice Over IP have changed lifestyles around the world and spawned new industries around controlling and providing information.
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"Internet is the largest source of information"
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Information literacy is a skill that Librarians pioneered as journals, papers, books all came online. I understand this question as the function a librarian can play in solving any information 'gap' that clients need resolving. While not content experts, librarians have the skills to locate relevant information to users needs. They do this by utilising such practices as Meta-data, indexing, keyword brainstorming, problem identification, boolean searching, database identification, berry-picking, etc. The returned information can then be "actioned."
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What kind of information are you looking for?
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to be able to keep up with ever changing consumers and the information age...
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The U.S. is in a post-industrial economy, also called the Information Age or Technology Age sometimes.  Look at the richest man in the world and what his company does.  There is Yahoo! and the internet (where we are), etc...  Without technology like computers and internet you wouldn't have been able to ask your question to me and I would have never been able to answer.
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12 to 18 years old! Seriously - look it up!
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When I was getting my bachelor's degree, useful information used to be defined as:\n\n"The difference that makes a difference"\n\nIn other words, I can give you lots of data--numbers, words, dates etc, but unless that data will provide some sort of ***difference*** to you, it is not useful.\n\nExample: Jane is 12, and John is 15.  This is just data. \n\nHowever, what if I told you "go buy a birthday gift."\n\nAfter hearing the ages of the children, that data would have made a *difference* to you.\n\nThus, useful information highlights differences in data.\n\nRegards,\n\nMysstere
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Information technology (IT) or Information and communication(s) technology (ICT) is a broad subject concerned with technology and other aspects of managing and processing information, especially in large organizations.
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The process of creating information models. \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_model
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I would say computer technology.
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No, but the lack of a similar increase in psychological growth in mankind has caused our technological development to outstrip our maturity as a species.  The sudden increase in information and the resulting challenges to everyone's world views due to access to the web and instant information should be sufficient to give us a chance to catch up a bit.  Then the technology will be much easier to handle and use wisely.
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Because of advances in technology, today's youth have a plethora of information at their fingertips and it's all available within a few seconds!  That's amazing.\n\nYouth of today know so, so many things that were unknown to kids even ten years ago!
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Definitions of Information technology on the Web:\n\nIncludes all matters concerned with the furtherance of computer science and technology and with the design, development, installation, and implementation of information systems and applications [San Diego State University]. An information technology architecture is an integrated framework for acquiring and evolving IT to achieve strategic goals. It has both logical and technical components. ...\nwww.ichnet.org/glossary.htm\n\nAny equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information. The term information technology includes computers, ancillary equipment, software, firmware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources. ...\nwww.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/Purchase/Section_508_def.htm\n\na term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange and utilize information in its various forms including business data, conversations, still images, motion pictures and multimedia presentations.\nwww.sciencecoalition.org/glossary/glossary_main.htm\n\nFiat is present in IT fields and in communications with ICT - Information & Communication Technology, Espin, Global Value, TeleClient, Atlanet.\nwww.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Fiat\n\nInformation technology provides the "engine" used to drive useful information systems. This includes computers, software, Internet/Intranet and telecommunications technology.\nwww.southbend.tech.purdue.edu/academics/degrees/CPTHtml/cpt_terminology.html\n\nComputer and communications hardware and software used to automate and augment clerical, administrative, and management tasks in organizations.\nwww.christlinks.com/glossary2.html\n\n(IT) The application of computer, communications and software technology to the management, processing and dissemination of information.\nwww.mcca.mb.ca/4.training.3.htm\n\nThe term "IT" encompasses the methods and techniques used in information handling and retrieval by automatic means. The means include computers, telecommunications and office systems or any combination of these elements.\nwww.nao.org.uk/intosai/edp/directory/misc/glossary.html\n\nEquipment, telecommunications, video telecommunications, proprietary software, and purchased services. It resources may also include personal services when OFM approvals are obtained and all reporting/approval requirements of OFM are followed.\nwww.dis.wa.gov/portfolio/Definitions.htm\n\nIncludes both hardware and software. Use this term when the use of information technology is the underlying driver of the "interesting" feature or of the organization's profitability or productivity. This term can include computer modeling, simulation, innovative uses of AI, automated knowledge discovery, data mining, data warehousing. (Technology)\nccs.mit.edu/21c/iokey.html\n\nThe hardware and software operated by an organization to accomplish a Federal function, regardless of the technology involved, whether computers, telecommunications, or other.\nwww.gao.gov/policy/itguide/glossary.htm\n\nThe entire array of mechanical and electronic devices which aid in the storage, retrieval, communication, and management of information--from typewriters to computers to copying machines. Integrity of numbers\nwww.sir.arizona.edu/resources/glossary.html\n\nthe hardware and software operated by a Federal agency or by a contractor of a Federal agency or other organization that processes information on behalf of the Federal Government to accomplish a Federal function (OMB Circular A-130).\nwww.gils.net/gilsappb.html\n\nInformation Technology applies modern technologies to the creation, management and use of information. IT includes video recorders, CD-ROM, telephones, calculators, and electronic cash tills as well as computers.\nwww.warwick.
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It will take minimum 15 to 20 years. Not at present. People r skeptical about internet shopping. It will take minimum one generation time to change the mindset of the public in India.
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age means maturity and experience in the world. its not just a #
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It's a cultural shift to the age of information. People become jaded about life and love when they are bombarded with internet porn, unattainable bodies, soft drink ads, and winning free ipods. The ideals of our grandparent generation are gone. I don't think that there is all bad to come of this shift, i believe that we are more aware and informed then ever. We have way more options then the you have to marry girl down the street or the person you parent picked out for economic reasons.