This article studies the various tools of government in the Information Age. It identifies the three conventional approaches of the tools of government analysis: conceiving instruments as institutions, focusing on the politics of instrument selection, and cataloguing the tool kit in a more generic way than on the politics of instrument choice. It enumerates the three sets of issues related to the application of conventional analysis to Information-Age tools of government. Finally, the article tries to determine whether the Information Age has radically transformational or dynamic conservatism effects on the way government operates.