the.com/information age
The era we drowned in data and called it enlightenment.
means The period starting in the mid-to-late 20th century when computing and digital networks made information cheap, fast, and overwhelming to produce, store, and spread.
from A straightforward compound naming an era, coined by analogy with earlier labels like the industrial age, and popularized through the 1900s as computers, then the internet, moved information from scarce and slow to abundant and instant — the phrase itself just tracking the shift it describes.
- started
- roughly 1970s, with the microchip
- paradox
- more facts, less agreement on truth
- predecessor
- industrial age, which made things instead of noise
- side effect
- attention became the scarcest resource, not information