Information Age is a term applied to the period where movement of information became faster than physical movement, it is also more narrowly applied to the late 20th century and early 21st century post 1970. It is often used in conjunction with the term post-industrial society

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	E P I L 0 G U E (4510 words) This analogy may help explain the meaning and importance of informationalism as a technological paradigm, which is currently replacing industrialism as the dominant matrix of twenty-first-century societies. Without informationalism, the network society could not exist, yet this new social structure is not produced by informationalism but by a broader pattern of social evolution. Informationalism was partly invented and decisively shaped by a new culture that was essential in the development of computer networking, in the distribution of processing capacity, and in the augmentation of innovation potential by cooperation and sharing. The Threshold theory: an the examination of the developmental promise of Information and Communications Technology in ... (10120 words) This idea is thus countered (or at least conjectured as having an incomplete definition of ‘humans’ and ‘progress’) by the development economist’s view that the development of higher education (and correspondingly information technology), when unaided by a parallel growth in elementary education leads to an overall detriment for the economy. Informationalism therefore is to be seen in a larger context as a change that permeates into the entire social and economic life. Seeking the job-creating power of informationalism studies requires an inquiry into whether there is the kind of labour force that is ready for climbing the launching pad, a labour force already equipped with the kind of skills that an information ecology will append.
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