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Do you call this the information age or digital age? Or something else?

Wikipedia says, or at the moment of this posting:
The Information Age is a 21st century period in human history characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.
Other terms for this time that we find ourselves in, include:
  • Computer Age, 
  • Digital Age, 
  • New Media Age



What's next after the information age?

Some people are trend-watchers (and others are trend-setters; and most people are just normal trend-followers, though there's a few who are trend-resistors and trend-avoiders).

Do you wonder what is beyond the information age? In 2014, Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School) wrote: 
The industrial revolution in the late nineteenth century ushered in the industrial age, and the digital revolution in the mid twentieth century spurred the emergence of the information age. So it is not entirely crazy to speculate about what might lie beyond the information age.

In 2016, Mike Wadhera wrote:
Twenty-five years after the introduction of the World Wide Web, the Information Age is coming to an end. Thanks to mobile screens and Internet everywhere, we’re now entering what I call the “Experience Age.”

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