And, for anticipating the future, the Information Age gets as little help from the Industrial Age as that period got from the ages that preceded it. Much of what we know about how industrial products are made, duplicated, sold, stored, used and valued, does not apply to information. Information is simply too different. The Information Age will have to discover its own rules. Definition Einstein said the best questions are the ones which, when children ask them, adults can't answer.
Dictionaries are little help.
All suggest knowledge as a synonym, but clearly knowledge is something more purely mental. I believe information is the communicable form of knowledge. It is not what we know, but what we say we know. There is a big difference. It is often the difference between what adds and what doesn't.