Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index According to Manuel Castells, the Information Age (or Informationalism, in contrast with Industrialism) started in the technological divide of 1970s, with inventions like the microprocessor, microcomputer, optical fiber, and TCP/IP protocol -- the basis of the technological system in which we are full immersed today. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.