The Information Age [also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age] is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the industrial revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information computerization. Holding a dominant position or a monopoly of a market is often not illegal in itself, however certain categories of behavior can be considered abusive and therefore incur legal sanctions when a business is too dominant. The onset of the Information Age is associated with the Digital Revolution, just as the Industrial Revolution marked the onset of the Industrial Age.
The Information Age formed by capitalizing on the computer microminiaturization advances, with a transition spanning from the advent of the personal computer in the late 1970s, to the Internet's reaching a critical mass in the early 1990s, and the adoption of such technology by the public in the two decades after 1990.
During the second industrial revolution:
Who designed, developed or for that matter, built the tracks for the steam engines, the roads for the first automobiles or airport runways for our aircraft?
The enigma of the Digital Age is that much of the business emphasis is placed on digital expansion and real world economics [curb side] is being disregarded and gradually becoming unstable.
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