... reasonto say we are living in the Information Age. Never before have so many people had sucheasy access to information. The two principal catalysts for the Information Age havebeen low-cost computers ... information technology.This chapter sets the stage for the remainder of the book. Electronic digital com-puters and high-performance communication networks are central to contemporaryinformation ... our hunger for quick access to informationthrough our use of Web browsers, Twitter, and texting, neurons inside our brains releasedopamine, producing a desire to seek out additional information,...