The current era, characterised by the increasing importance and availability of information (especially by means of computers), as opposed to previous eras (such as the Industrial Age) in which most endeavours related to some physical process or product.

(statistics) A measure of the amount of information that an observable random variable X carries about an unknown parameter θ of a distribution that models X. Formally, it is the variance of the score, or the expected value of the observed information.

(philosophy) A risk arising from the dissemination of true information.

plural of information hazard

(psychology) fatigue caused by the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of fatigue which results

superlative form of well-informed: most well-informed

comparative form of well-informed: more well-informed

plural of mutual information

plural of information society

(sociology) A society where the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity.