Age of Information

I always wondered why this era is called 'the age of information.' Still I am looking for the answer but nothing convincing emerged. I went to wiki and it says all sorts of gibberish which does not make sense to me at all. This is age of information because computers are ubiquitous, information can be transferred freely so and so. I am sorry all these sound stupid to me. Then I stumbled upon the idea this morning (partially coined by zafar). Human being has trouble living without worshiping anything and in this era guess what we worship :)