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info-, comb. form|ˈɪnfəʊ|
[Shortened f. information n.]
Prefixed to (esp. the latter part of) nouns to which it stands in attributive or appositive relation, forming chiefly portmanteau words in information technology or the media. infoˈmania, an excessive enthusiasm for the accumulation and dissemination of factual information (see also quot. 1984).
1984PC 16 Oct. 189/2 DELPHI has..a number of on-line special interest groups (SIGs) and an extensive member-publishing area called ‘*Infomania’. 1986Washington Post 21 Aug. a19/2 Society's much bemoaned infomania, the need to stockpile contextless facts, is hard to distinguish from a good researcher's hunger for absolutely exhaustive background. 1989Independent 30 Dec. 38/7 Infomania erodes our capacity for significance. With a mindset fixed on information, the attention span shortens.
infoˈmercial: see *informercial n.infopreˈneur [f. entrepreneur n. c], one who seeks to profit in business from the collection and dissemination of information (incorporated in a trademark in the U.S.).
1985Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Off.) 6 Aug. tm174/1 *Infopreneur (stylized). Weitzen, Harold F... Filed 2-1-1984. 1986Economist 23 Aug. (High Technol. Suppl.) 15/2 American makers have used their knowhow to better commercial ends... Other countries—Britain and West Germany particularly—have been inexplicably making life as difficult as possible for their own infopreneurs.
also infopreˈneurial a.
1986Economist 2 Aug. 16/1 To compete..in the *infopreneurial revolution, GEC and other European high-tech businesses will have to pick their partners with an eye for technological strengths to plug their most serious weaknesses.
ˈinfosphere [-sphere], the sphere of human activity concerned with the collection and processing of information, esp. by computer; cf. technosphere s.v. techno-.
1971Time 12 Apr. 96/2 In much the way that fish cannot conceptualize water or birds the air, man barely understands his *infosphere, that encircling layer of electronic and typographical smog composed of clichés from journalism, entertainment, advertising and government. 1980A. Toffler Third Wave xiii. 181 A new info-sphere is emerging alongside the new techno-sphere. Ibid. xiv. 194 In all previous societies the info-sphere provided the means for communication between humans.
ˈinfotech [tech n.3] = information technology s.v. information n. 8; freq. attrib.
1981Times 28 Aug. 19 (heading) Left behind in the ‘*infotech’ race. Ibid. 19/5 The Government [is]..assigning specific responsibility for coordinating the country's ‘infotech’ efforts to the energetic Minister for Industry. 1985Sunday Times 16 June 72/1 Silicon and the other basic building blocks of infotech. 1991Whole Earth Rev. Summer 13/1 John Mayo's essay on infotech trends and the physical limits that constrain them, and Anne Branscomb's on property rights in information, are two of the best overviews available. |