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.

A condition in which all relevant information is known to all parties involved. For example, in the stock market, stock information has a full public disclosure, and all investors are in the same position to share information.

The inability to process everything one hears and sees; the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of stress which results.

prediction market

The use and management of information in pursuit of an advantage over an opponent, such as propaganda, disinformation, and gathering assurances that one's own information is accurate.

(information theory) A measure of the entropic (informational) correlation between two random variables.

(finance) data showing that somebody is creditworthy

(finance) data showing that somebody is uncreditworthy

(software, object-oriented programming) The technique to hide information so that it is invisible from the outside of an object. (It is a principle of segregation of design decisions that are most likely to change, so that other parts of the program are protected from extensive modification.)

The time between information becoming available and it being publicly broadcast.