Information Age

The transistor-to-internet era in which computing and networks reorganized economies and culture.

Core Principles & Analysis

• It began with the transistor at Bell Labs in December 1947.
• Moore’s 1965 observation of doubling transistor counts held for half a century and set the era’s tempo.
• Mass internet adoption in the 1990s and smartphones after 2007 put networked computers in most human hands.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 1947 – present