INFORMATION AGE

The Information Age, also commonly known as the Computer Age or Digital Age, is an
idea that the current age will be characterized by the ability of individuals to transfer information
freely, and to have instant access to information that would have been difficult or impossible to
find previously. The idea is linked to the concept of a digital age or digital revolution, and carries
the ramifications of a shift from traditional industry that the industrial revolution brought through
industrialization, to an economy based on the manipulation of information, i.e., an information
society.
The Information Age formed by capitalizing on the computer microminiaturization
advances, with a transition spanning from the advent of the personal computer in the late 1970s to
the internet's reaching a critical mass in the early 1990s, and the adoption of such technology by
the public in the two decades after 1990. Bringing about a fast evolution of technology in daily
life, as well as of educational life style, the Information Age has allowed rapid global
communications and networking to shape modern society