Information 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 ==
=== 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. 	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? 	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. 	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.	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. 	2.30 E10	10% 	Information Age
 	Video Games 	You're playing one right now! 	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! 	4.37 E10	10% 	Information Age
 	Apollo 11 	With the Apollo 11 space mission, the first humans land on the moon. 	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. 	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. 	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. 	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. 	7.10 E10	200% 	Sputnik
 	Game Engine 	This game was made from one of these. 	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. 	9.20 E10	50% 	Apollo 11 Space Race
 	Graphical User Interface 	Text-based user interfaces are out, graphical icons and visual indicators are in. 	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. 	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. 	1.66 E11	10% 	Graphical User Interface
 	Search Engine 	Not sure what this is? You should probably Google it. 	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. 	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... 	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. 	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. 	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
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Category:Primary Simulation
Category:Civilization
Category:Technological Civilization
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