informate means to use information technology in a production process or an organization to translate activities and events into shareable information. It carries an Arena rating of 1260, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, informate ranks #95 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #876 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #903 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #3,856 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
Why “informate” is a great word
To use information technology to translate physical activities and events into shareable, actionable information within a production process or organization. Coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 1988, modelled on 'automate', from 'information'. Unlike "automate" (which uses technology to remove human intervention from a task) or "digitize" (which is the specific technical conversion of analog data to digital bits), to informate is to render the hidden visible, to create a textual double of the material world. It is the dashboard that hums with the real-time pulse of a factory floor, the algorithm that translates a delivery driver's route into a stream of predictive analytics, and the sensor that transforms the quiet wear of a machine part into a narrative of impending failure—a process that promises total awareness while quietly demanding a new, unceasing literacy of everything we do.
Etymology
Coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 1988, from information, modelled on automate.
verb
- To use information technology in a production process or an organization to translate activities and events into shareable information.e.g.“The duality of information technology—its capacity to automate and to informate—provides a vantage point from which to consider these choices.” — 1988, Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine, New York: Basic Books, page 390:
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