Though the Information Age is often thought of as a new era, its roots stretch back to changes during the Age of Reason and Revolution. This work argues that it... » 

Though the Information Age is often thought of as a new era, its roots stretch back to changes during the Age of Reason and Revolution. This work argues that its origins lie in the systems developed in the 18th and 19th centuries to gather, store, transform, display and communicate information. «