Information Age

Information Age
Habitat	Industrial
Type	Civilization
Generator Stats
Base Cost	Ideas 1.38 E10
Base Production	Ideas 5.75 E6/sec
Requires	Computer Atomic Bomb
Chronology
Previous	Atomic Age
Next	Emergent Age

The Information Age is the tenth generator that produces Ideas and the third generator of the Technological Civilizations. Its the age you're in right now! Also known as the Computer Age or the Digital Age, this is the age when humanity creates computers and the internet.

Description

"The age you're in right now! Also known as the Computer Age or the Digital Age."

Design

The Information Age icon resembles a Apple Macintosh 128k (1984).

Upgrades

The Information Age has <number of upgrades> upgrades, increasing the generator efficiency with a <total multiplier>x multiplier.

Icon	Name	Description	Cost	Efficiency	Requires
	Integrated Circuit	Smaller, cheaper, and faster—we can now improve our technology using tiny chips filled with even smaller transistors to store information.	Ideas 1.14 E9	10%	Transistor
	Computer	Our society has become intertwined with machines. From such humble beginnings, now we have built computers, vast machines that can be programmed to complete any number of tasks. Who knows where we might go with this?	Ideas 3.41 E9	25%	Integrated Circuit
	Computer Terminal	Computers used to be so huge that they would take up an entire room. These days, we have neat little boxes that can fit comfortably on our desks.	Ideas 1.38 E10	10%	Information Age Television
	Sputnik	The world's first satellite, Sputnik was launched by the USSR in 1957. It orbited the Earth for three weeks, kickstarted the Space Race between the United States and USSR, and taught us new and unprecedented information about the atmosphere of our planet.	Ideas 1.84 E10	50%	Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
	Computer Chip	A fundamental element of the computer, a chip is a set of electronic circuits that contain data. Over the years, their size has gotten smaller, but the amount of information they can hold has only increased.	Ideas 2.30 E10	10%	Information Age
	Video Games	You're playing one right now!	Ideas 2.76 E10	10%	Computer Chip
	Cell Phone	Forget the unwieldiness of home phones, with their long cords and heavy bases. Now our phones fit in our pocket!	Ideas 4.37 E10	10%	Information Age
	Apollo 11	With the Apollo 11 space mission, the first humans land on the moon.	Ideas 4.54 E10	20%	Computer Chip
	Map Genome	By taking our DNA apart and seeing how it works, we are able to understand how the genes of our ancestors can—and do—still affect our lives today.	Ideas 4.60 E10	50%	Integrated Circuit Modern Science Molecular Biology
	Arpanet	An early computer network that would eventually evolve into what we know as the modern internet.	Ideas 4.60 E10	10%	Computer Terminal
	Home PC	Once computers were monstrous machines, so large that they filled entire rooms. We've shrunk them a lot since then.	Ideas 5.52 E10	10%	Computer Chip
	Space Race	During this period of fierce competition between the two countries, both the USSR and the United States made new discoveries and helped to propel the work forward to the age of space exploration.	Ideas 7.10 E10	200%	Sputnik
	Game Engine	This game was made from one of these.	Ideas 7.36 E10	10%	Video Games
	Moon Mission	“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” —Neil Armstrong. Humans set foot on the moon for the first time, and a new era of space exploration begins.	Ideas 9.20 E10	50%	Apollo 11 Space Race
	Graphical User Interface	Text-based user interfaces are out, graphical icons and visual indicators are in.	Ideas 1.10 E11	10%	Home PC
	Internet	A system of interlinked computer networks that connects the whole world. The greatest and worst thing that ever happened to us.	Ideas 1.10 E11	20%	Home PC Arpanet
	CD-ROM	Toss those floppy disks out the window! Using lasers to read binary data encoded as tiny dots on a disc, CD-ROMS are able to pack in more data, in a neater, higher-quality package.	Ideas 1.66 E11	10%	Graphical User Interface
	Search Engine	Not sure what this is? You should probably Google it.	Ideas 1.90 E11	100%	Internet
	Space Shuttle	Space shuttles were the first partially-reusable vehicles designed for spaceflight. They launched satellites, probes, astronauts, and the Hubble Space Telescope.	Ideas 4.60 E11	50%	Moon Mission
	Virtual Reality	An interactive computer-generated environment that uses sensory feedback to make the experience feel immersive for the user. Lose yourself...	Ideas 6.90 E12	10%	Smart Phone Game Engine
	Cloning	The ability to create an exact genetic copy of an organism, cloning opens up a world of new possibilities for bio-engineering.	Ideas 3.28 E14	50%	50 Information Age Map Genome
	International Space Station	Launched in 1998, the International Space Station is a vessel orbiting the Earth where astronauts from all over the world can work together to study and learn more about space.	Ideas 3.56 E17	100%	100 Information Age Space Shuttle Space Station

Achievements

Icon	Name	Description	Requires
	The World-Wide Web	As of October 2018, there are more than 1.9 billion websites on the internet.	25 Information Age
	You've Got Mail	The first email was sent in 1975 by programmer Ray Tomlinson.	50 Information Age
	Pining for the Fjords	Finland was the first country to make internet access a legal right, as of 2010.	100 Information Age
	Bugging Out	The term "computer bug" was coined in 1945 by programmer and naval officer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.	150 Information Age
	Gaming the System	The earliest example of a video game comes from 1947: a "Cathode ray tube amusement device" that allowed the user to simulate a missile being fired at targets.	250 Information Age