INFORMATION AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does information age mean? 

• INFORMATION AGE (noun)
  The noun INFORMATION AGE has 1 sense:

1. a period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks

  Familiarity information: INFORMATION AGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFORMATION AGE (noun)

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Meaning:

A period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("information age" is a kind of...):

modern era (the present or recent times)