the Information Age see the .network search for information+age+society made through Yahoo; the coming of age, from the standpoint of The Network, of the processes of enterprise and economic development as one due to advances in communications technology, especially the Internet, thus allowing site selectors and others involved in location work to exchange data relatively quickly. See the background on development of The Network in Site Location Assistance.com as well as the information-related definitions below. definition of the enterprise development information age defined definition of the economic development information age defined

the current stage in societal development which began to emerge at the end of the twentieth century. This period is marked by the increased production, transmission, consumption of and reliance on information. Many consider the new role of information to be changing our social and economic behavior as dramatically as did the Industrial Revolution.

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

Term coined by media scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964 to discuss the rapidly expanding reach (at the time, through television, radio, and print) of technologies that spread information.

Major advances in information networks and software tools that enable a step change in business, trade and government processes.

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