6. Information Age Information Age is a term that has been used to refer to the present era, generally considered as beginning in the 1990’s. The name alludes to the global economy’s shift in focus away from the production of physical goods - as exemplified by the industrial age- and towards the manipulation of information. The Information Age was preceded by the Space Age .
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10. Comparative chart Function: produce, design, build and share information with different supports Function: spread information Free software for the user Software with paid licenses Sites with a diversity of purposes, most of the times communities of interests that share practice and information Sites with a commercial purpose, mainly Design and production don’t need great information on TICs. Accessible and practical Design and production depend on those who know about computing sciences Contents and sites which are flexible and in permanent transformation Contents and sites with a tendency to be still Information in constant change Information seldom updated Broad range of contents managed by users Sites of low and high quality managed by a webmaster Decentralized information Centralized information Web 2.0 Web 1.0