ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a period of time in human history in which distributed forms of communication and the mass storage, sharing, retrieval and manipulation of information is made possible by the cultural evolution of knowledge and technical tools. It presents three significant changes in cultural knowledge and understanding. First is an advance in scientific understanding harnessed for the enhancement of communication processes. Second is an increase in the capacity to gather, store and share information derived from the innovative process of digitisation. And third is playing and learning in the digital age is informed by a disposition towards exploration, knowledge generation and re-generation. Typically, writing concerned with young children and technologies does not invest time and effort in understanding the history of the digital age. The chapter outlines the emergence of the digital age is associated with the cultural transformations in knowledge about physics that gave rise to the invention of the transistor and the consequent application of the transistor.
