Discuss the ways in which new directions in science and philosophy have influenced information age culture

What will be an ideal response?

The profound advances in science and technology during the information age have worked to make the planet smaller, the universe larger, and methods of navigating the two ever more promising. Modern physics, genetics decoding, and brain research have allowed humans to view themselves as an entity in even more minute terms, from chaotic quanta to combinations of DNA units.
While science moves forward optimistically to reveal the underlying natural order, philosophy has entered a phase of radical skepticism that denies the existence of any true or uniform system of thought. The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein held that all forms of expression, and, indeed, all truths, are dominated by the limits of language as a descriptive tool. Following Wittgenstein, philosophers tried to unlock the meaning of the text (that is, any mode of cultural expression) by way of a close analysis of its linguistic structure. These explorations led to postmodernism, the defining aesthetic of late twentieth-century culture.