The post-information society, also known as the bit age or the digital age, is a new era after the industrial age and the information age. The fundamental characteristics of the post-information age are the realization of "true personalization". First, personal choices are enriched. Second, individuals and the environment can properly cooperate.

In the post-information age, machines understand people as well as people do; there are no time and space barriers, and people can work and live in multiple places. Digital survival in the post-information age will enable people to achieve maximum liberation; electronic networks and personal computers will decentralize power or give individuals maximum power; information technology will blur the boundaries between nations and countries, and human beings will move toward globalization; cooperation will replace competition and the pursuit of An era of universal harmony.

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Characteristics of the digital age

1. Permanence: With the advent of the digital age, more and more data are being stored, and technology will Continuing this process, an environment is being established in which information can be stored in unlimited quantities.

2. Reproducibility. Digitization allows data to be replicated exponentially. Just like a song or movie can be stored on countless people's devices.

3. Immediacy. The data itself not only wants to be received instantly, but also understood instantly. Just like today's smart watches and bracelets, a lot of data can be recorded and viewed in real time.

4. Efficiency. Data itself is pursuing efficiency and is constantly being understood and disseminated in better and faster ways.

5. Tend to order. The cyclical nature of data: Chaos produces order, order produces chaos, and so on. Based on the emergence of massive data, new order methods will inevitably appear and be established, and then the cycle will continue.

6. Dynamic. Data will move around, and every change in delivery methods accelerates the flow and exchange of information. You can imagine how much changed before and after the emergence of WeChat and Weibo.

7. Infinite divisibility. Data is infinitely divisible, that is, it can be packaged together, or it can be split into smaller parts.

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