Almost everyday we use this word. It is one of the most common ones in our language. Actually, I really don’t know when it became that prominent, when it became integral part of our everyday language.
Just wait a minute, I have a look into Wikipedia … Amazingly enough, I did not catch grounds. Either you end up with the Latin origin of the word »forming something, educating, bringing something into form«… if I’m not completely wrong, the way we use the term is that we don’t differentiate between sender and receiver anymore… Either side knows what the other side … needs, knows, wants to know, understands or doesn’t. Information is out there and we can find it. I don’t go along with this view. Information is closely related with communication and that is a thing which is/should be bidirectional, democratic and participatory… information is and should be symmetric, it should be democratic as well, it should present an open surface for discussion, negotiation …. one name it.

The Eames’ “A Communications Primer” from FI$H 2000 on Vimeo
Source: infostethics