Fluther: What Age are we living in?

What Age are we living in?

Asked by RareDenver (13173

) September 15th, 2010
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We’ve had the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Where are we? Plastic Age or Silicon Age maybe?

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Media Age

marinelife (62485

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Connection Age

wundayatta (58722

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I hear the phrases “Information Age” or “Age of Technology” thrown around.

muppetish (14416

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Electron Age

aprilsimnel (30749

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I though it was the Age of Aquarius. There is even a song about it.

Hawkeye (1250

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Feel the pwn-age!

ucme (50047

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Fluther Age

erichw1504 (26448

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Misinformation Age

picante (11498

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The Age of Incivility

Austinlad (16323

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The Age of Muslimited Understanding and Tolerance.

Austinlad (16323

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Idiocracy Age

erichw1504 (26448

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The Age of Cynicism

DominicX (28808

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Sick Age

ZEPHYRA (21750

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Information Age

erichw1504 (26448

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The Big Brother Age

Cruiser (40449

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Anthropocene

The term Anthropocene is used by some scientists to describe the current period in the Earth’s history when human activities have had a significant global impact on the Earth’s ecosystems. It has no precise start date, but may be considered to start with the Industrial Revolution (late 18th century).[1] Other commentators link it to earlier events, such as the rise of agriculture. The term was coined in 2000 by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, who regards the influence of human behavior on the Earth in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological era. Use of this concept as an official geological concept gained support in early 2008, with publication of two new papers supporting this idea

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Here’s an article about it.

Hawaii_Jake (37335

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The New Dark age.

Sarcasm (16793

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@hawaii_jake That’s really interesting. According to the Wikipedia article some would consider that it starts with the beginning of agriculture and aanimal husbandry as human tools to control food supplies. I would tend to agree with that, and divide the Anthropocene Age into two parte: Early Anthropocene, (Agricultural) Era (from approimately 6000 BCE, with the development of agriculture), and the Later, or Current Anthropocene (Industrial) Era, about 1300 CE, with the invention of timepieces that operate independently of natural cycles

Strauss (23618

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@Yetanotheruser : I think I agree with you. The rise of agriculture is significant and needs to be taken into account. And the Later Anthropocene age would then be where we are now.

Hawaii_Jake (37335

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Age of Aggressive Stupidity

janbb (62859

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@muppetish & @picante You’re both right. You can’t have an information age without a misinformation age. You can see the same pairing in America’s first information age starting around 1840. What makes information widely available will always make misinformation widely available as well.

fundevogel (15506

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The age of religious intolerance.

Lightlyseared (34617

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Age of Aquarius!!!!!!

Deja_vu (4157

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The Age of the New Earth.

Aster (20023

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Seriously The Digital Age

Deja_vu (4157

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The Pivotal Age

josie (30934

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The Internet Age?

Jabe73 (4010

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Age of Empires

I love that game

weeveeship (4665

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Age of Aquarius. Just ask the 5th Dimension. Derrr.

deni (23141

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I think it is the age of Accountability can’t quite remember but can look it up.

JustmeAman (3978

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@JustmeAman I wish.

fundevogel (15506

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This is the period of time when big business will be held accountable and the world will change. Well at least according to the Mayan Calander and it’s periods.

JustmeAman (3978

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Ah, those Mayans. They’re worse than the weatherman. They totally blew that prediction that their society would still be around in 2012. You’d think they wouldn’t miss something like the obliteration of their own culture.

fundevogel (15506

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They are still here?

JustmeAman (3978

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Nope, but they thought they would be.

fundevogel (15506

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There are still Mayans here.

JustmeAman (3978

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What I meant is that according to their predictions the Mayan civilization is still alive and well. They totally missed the whole conquistador smallpox thing.

fundevogel (15506

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The Mayan culture is still here. They just went underground for the past 500 years or so…

Strauss (23618

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