info age
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From info (“information”) + age.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɪnfəʊ ˌeɪdʒ/
Proper noun
- (informal, usually attributively) The Information Age.
- 1999 September 26, Bob Sipchen, “Techy Feely”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2023-02-15:
- We're still at Burbank Airport on a recent Friday night when my 9-year-old son, Robert, reveals himself as a true child of the Info Age.
- 2000 January 16, Gerald Marzorati, “Fromage Hommage”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2018-12-12:
- There is nothing campy in all this appropriation, though, at least as these younger, info-age musicians understand it.
- 2013 November 27, Mark Morford, “Meditation for the Damned”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-02-15:
- Can we say similar things about boredom? Because it, too, is a recent invention, a First-World "problem" par excellence, a bastard child of the info age and spoiled entitlement, of having all our basic needs to grossly over-met that we sit around with every possible comfort, gadget, toy and stimuli, complaining of apathy.
- 2019 June 19, James Fallows, “Our Towns: A Tech Company in Fresno Gets Nationwide Reach”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2022-11-08:
- Almost everyone in the tech business talks-the-talk about the info-age bringing benefits to all. In my view Bitwise has come much closer than most to walking-the-walk.
References
- “info age, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
