The information age is the first time people have used written communication: a. to reach people far away. b. for social plans. c. to invite people to dinner. d. for quick chats.

A.to reach people far away.

Explanation:

The Information Age (also known as Era Digital or Era Informática) is the name given to the period in the history of humanity that is linked to information and communication technologies (ICT). The beginning of this period is associated with the digital revolution, although it has its antecedents in technologies such as telephone, radio or television, which made the flow of information become faster than physical movement.

The development of communication and the transmission of information is one of the special characteristics of our civilization since the printing of mobile types was invented around 1450 by Johannes Gutenberg, which, by allowing mass production of books, was a great boost to conservation and transmission of information, ideas and culture.

This impulse was reinforced in the nineteenth century with the appearance of the written press and communication by cable (telegraph and telephone), followed in the 20th century by the appearance of mass media such as radio and television, and finally computer science and the internet, which favor a society based on knowledge (and, at the same time, an economy of knowledge).

At the academic level, information theories are developed, which are general theory of systems and theory of cybernetics, whose function is to study how to reach messages more effectively to an increasingly larger, more critical, demanding or simply saturated and insensitive. The union of telecommunications and the processing of information create the discipline known as telematics.