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computer age

n.
The current era as characterized by the development, applications, and sociopolitical consequences of computer technology.
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Your bumper value Daily Record has bounded into the computer age with an offer no self-respecting computer whiz-kid can afford to miss!
I linked that to the fact that Ted Nelson, who invented the concept of hypertext some decades ago, had named his own vision of the World Wide Web of the coming computer age the "Xanadu project." So I took heart that, in living in Gainesville, Florida, I was not really excluded from anything but was at one of the most creative nodes in the transition from a literate to a "computerate" world.
And the desk wouldn't be cluttered, as it is now, with telephones, terminals, modems, mice and other gadgets of the computer age.
Access to government in the computer age; an examination of state public records law.
Introducing the reader to a man who's work has tangibly effected students from times of the Vietnam and cold wars, through Reganism, Generation X and the cultural technological revolution of the computer age, Old Hopes For A New Place creates a vivid account of the changes and effects of Grand Valley State University's outstanding president upon both students and faculty.
MOBILE libraries in Warwickshire are being brought into the computer age.
THE hidden dangers of the computer age keep surfacing with frightening regularity.
In this work, Balthaus describes a spiritual process from Christianity to the computer age.
MOBILE libraries across Warwickshire are being brought into the computer age.
Meanwhile the PM is logging on to the computer age by taking part in a live question and answer session on the Internet.
EVEN one-year-old children are getting a taste of the computer age thanks to special keyboards installed at a nursery.
Cricket-mad Mick Jagger is bowling into the computer age.

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