Digital Age

(noun)

A term used to describe the current age characterized by the ability of individuals to transfer information freely and have instant access to information that would have been difficult or impossible to find previously.

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Examples of Digital Age in the following topics:

  • The Information Age

    • The Information Age refers to the current period in which information is easily accessed and transferred by individuals.
    • The Information Age, also commonly known as the Computer Age or Digital Age, is a descriptive term for the current, modern age in history in which individuals are able to transfer information freely and have instant access to information.
    • He did not foresee the digital technology that would follow decades later to replace analog microform with digital imaging, storage, and transmission mediums.
    • Automated, potentially lossless digital technologies allowed vast increases in the rapidity of information growth.
    • Clearly, the idea of digital network connections as the root of our demise resonated in this period of rapid technological change.

  • Reactions to Sputnik

    • Within two days, calculation of the Sputnik orbit (joint work by UIUC Astronomy Dept. and Digital Computer Lab).

  • The Gilded Age

    • The Gilded Age refers to the period following Reconstruction, when the American economy grew at its fastest rate in history.
    • By the end of the Gilded Age, the United States was at the top end of the world's leading industrial nations.
    • In the Progressive Era that followed the Gilded Age, it became a world power.
    • The Gilded Age saw impressive economic growth and the unprecedented growth of major cities.
    • Built in 1893, it typifies the excesses of Gilded Age wealth.

  • Conclusion: Trends of the Gilded Age

    • The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900.
    • The early half of the Gilded Age roughly coincided with the middle portion of the Victorian era in Britain and Belle Époque in France.
    • The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West.
    • During the Gilded Age, many new social movements took hold in the United States.
    • Book cover of The Gilded Age by Mark Twain (1st edition, 1873)

  • Freedom, Inequality, and Democracy in the Gilded Age

    • During the Gilded Age, many new social movements took hold in the United States, supporting the rights of women and African-Americans.
    • During the Gilded Age, many new social movements took hold in the United States.
    • The "Gilded Age" that was enjoyed by the topmost percentiles of American society after the recovery from the Panic of 1873 floated on the surface of the newly industrialized economy of the Second Industrial Revolution.
    • The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, employing the ironic difference between a "gilded" and a Golden Age.

  • The Jazz Age

    • The Jazz Age was a cultural period and movement that took place in America during the 1920s from which both new styles of music and dance emerged.
    • Several famous entertainment venues such as the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club came to epitomize the Jazz Age.
    • The music of singer Bessie Smith was immensely popular during the Jazz Age and she both influenced and paved the way for generations of female artists.
    • Cab Calloway became one of the most popular musicians of the Jazz Age in the 1920s.
    • During the Jazz Age, popular music included current dance songs, novelty songs, and show tunes.

  • Labor and Domestic Tensions

    • During the Gilded Age, new labor unions, which used a wide variety of tactics, emerged.

  • The Expansion of Europe

    • The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration and the Great Navigations, was a period in European history from the early 15th century to the early 17th century.
    • Historians often refer to the Age of Discovery to mean the pioneering period of the Portuguese and Spanish long-distance maritime travels in search of alternative trade routes to the Indies.
    • While a great deal of Western history centers on Europeans as the earliest and most advanced explorers of the world, growing evidence suggests extensive transoceanic travel had been well underway long before the European Age of Discovery.
    • The fall of the Roman Empire (476 CE) and the beginning of the European Renaissance in the late 14th century roughly bookend the period known as the Middle Ages.
    • This map illustrates the main travels of the Age of Discovery, from 1482-1524.

  • The Transformation of the West

    • The West was most notably transformed through the railroads, increase in crime rates, and the rise of industry during the Gilded Age.
    • The American West was vastly transformed during the Gilded Age.
    • Six transcontinental railroads were built in total during the Gilded Age.
    • Outline key issues in the transformation of the West during the Gilded Age

  • Cinema

    • The 1920s are often referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood, with "Talkies" and the first all-color features replacing silent films.
    • By the end of the decade, cinema had changed significantly with major leaps in technology that marked the Golden Age of Hollywood and ended the era of the silent film, which itself had ended the previous, widespread popularity of Vaudeville Theater.
    • This release arguably launched the Golden Age of Hollywood.
    • American actress Louise Brooks was one of the box office stars who became famous in the 1920s at the outset of the Golden Age of Hollywood.