This covers the time period from the invention of the Internet to present day; characterized by the use of electronic technology to organize and disseminate information.

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There are three distinct information revolutions:
- Print-based revolution
- Pre-digital revolution
- Digital revolution

History of Information Technology

Rayward, W. Boyd (2014). “Information Revolutions, the Information Society, and the Future of the History of Information Science.” Library Trends, Vol. 62(3), pp. 681-713.

Information Revolutions, the Information Society, and the Future of the History of Information Science

This covers the time period from the invention of the Gutenburg printing press to the beginning of World War II; characterized by rapid growth of mass media and the spread of information.

Print-based Revolution

This covers the time period from the end of World War II to the invention of the Internet; characterized by the need to sort and organize the influx of documents from the war. Subject specialists were born during this time.

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