Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The author of many tech books, Michael Ashley covers AI and Big Data. In all of human innovation, few inventions rival the iPhone ...

Since the 1970s, we have been living in what historians refer to as the “Information Age,” a time period marked by transition into the technological world and increased access to digitized knowledge.

Reid Hoffman, founder of business-minded social networking service LinkedIn, recently said the following: If Web 1.0 involved go search, get data and some limited interactivity, and if Web 2.0 ...

Nicholas P. Sullivan is a member of the national Local Catch Network. People in the world’s developed nations live in a post-industrial era, working mainly in service or knowledge industries.