Ett äventyr i kulturhistoria

The renovation has turned a cottage into a palace. Information, n., now runs 9,400 words, the length of a novella. It is a sort of masterpiece--an adventure in cultural history. A century ago \"information\" did not have much resonance. It was a nothing word. \"An item of training; an instruction.\" Now (as people have been saying for fifty years) we are in the Information Age. Which, by the way, the OED defines for us in its dry-as-chili-powder prose: \"the era in which the retrieval, management, and transmission of information, esp. by using computer technology, is a principal (commercial) activity.\"