Information Age
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The Information Age is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the Industrial Revolution, to an
A laptop connected to the Internet displaying information from Wikipedia. Long-distance communication between computer systems is a hallmark of the Information Age.
A Pennsylvania state historical marker in Philadelphia cites the creation of ENIAC, the "first all-purpose digital computer", in 1946 as the beginning of the Information Age.
A timeline of major milestones of the Information Age, from the first message sent by the Internet protocol suite to global Internet access
A university computer lab containing many desktop PCs
Claude Shannon
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Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man wh
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…general-purpose computer. Digital communication became economical for widespread adoption after the invention of the personal computer in the 1970s. Claude Shannon, a Bell Labs mathematician, is generally credited with laying the foundations of digitalization in his pioneering 1948 article, A Mathematical Theory…
Shannon c. 1950s
Theseus Maze in MIT Museum
The Minivac 601, a digital computer trainer designed by Shannon
Statue of Claude Shannon at AT&T Shannon Labs