Automates:

When compared with informates, automates are less sophisticated and require less processes.  They lack an important process which information technology entails.  Over the course of history humans have attempted to empower machines and mechanisms to do their work for them.  These machines did and can do just that.  They take precision to another level, doing the job of a human while making fewer mistakes.  Yet in modern society it has evolved another step past just being able to do the job to being able to reply, giving back information.  This is one important process that automates lack, they can not produce that information.

 
Informates:

Informate, as Shoshana Zuboff calls it, can be described as a noun, referring to the actual technology, or an action performed by information technology.  Information technology is a very powerful and valuable tool.  This technology contains the capacity to not only process information given it, but also to produce a response.  This response could just simply be in the form of data.  So when information technology informates, it is given data and performs a task, and from that it gives information back, it responds.  The example that Zuboff uses is that "microprocessor-based sensing devices not only apply programmed instructions to equipment but also convert current state of equipment, product, or process into data."