Name for "our time"

[Free Spirit]

We've had names for the different times in history as you all know but what do you think will be the name for this modern time we now live in? Will we have that name perhaps in the next two hundred years or more? What you think it'll be called?

[Zingu]

The Computer Age?


Probably not, as far as I see, Computers are going to play a giant role for pretty much the rest of human history, so no.....


The Nuclear Age maybe?

[Rasta Sapian]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18 2004, 06:01 PM
The Computer Age?


Probably not, as far as I see, Computers are going to play a giant role for pretty much the rest of human history, so no.....


The Nuclear Age maybe?
how about just the " New Age", I think we have quite a while before it will outdated!

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Hmmm, Let's see:

Stone Age: ????? - 10,000BC

Neolithic: 10,000BC - 5000BC

Bronze Age: 5000BC - 1000BC

Iron Age: 1000BC - 50/100AD

Steel Age: 100AD - 1500AD

Blackpowder Age: 1500AD - 1930AD

Nuclear Age: 1930 - 2004 (Now)

I probably have the dates wrong on the above!
Hypothetical future ages:

Interplanetary Age: 2100 - 2500

Extrasolar Age: 2500 - 3000

Interstellar Age: 3000 - 4000

Intergalactic Age: 4000 - 5000

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Since this is in philosophy, I assume he's talking about like the renaissance, the age of reason, which was the enlightenment, and the age of romanticism, etc.

[Kobbot 401]

seeing as we are an age of new ideas and new ways of thinking we could be called the Age of the Revolutions, that being in many diffrent things.

[Fidelbrand]

maybe... Spiritual age (People will look more into themselves amid changes brought about by hyper-techonological advancements and global capitalism)

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[VukBZ2005]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2004, 01:41 AM
Since this is in philosophy, I assume he's talking about like the renaissance, the age of reason, which was the enlightenment, and the age of romanticism, etc.
How about the "Age of Liberation"?

[Free Spirit]

What about " Pollution time"?

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by Communist [email protected] 19 2004, 07:01 AM
How about the "Age of Liberation"?
Too early to make such an assumption. :lol:

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

THE DICHOTOMY
(Cue menacing synthesizer!)

I was tempted to say the post-industrial age, but, like the "Nuclear age" it's a really Eurocentric label. Most of the world isn't living in some sort of nuclear, and it's only a minority within the first world who truely sees all of its benefits.

I'm going to go listen to "Into The Unknown". Seeya.

[Roses in the Hospital]

Technological Revolution?
In the same way as the industrial revolution of the late early nineteenth century laid the foundations for a radically different way of life for subsequent generations I reckon the advances we've made with computers et al over the past twenty or so years will mean a significantly different way of life for the generations which follow us...

[HueyPNewton26]

since it will be future generations that will decide what is it called and not ourselves how can we make an assumption on what people in the future will look back on the past and name an era.

[Roses in the Hospital]

since it will be future generations that will decide what is it called and not ourselves how can we make an assumption on what people in the future will look back on the past and name an era

True. But then we'll likely never know whether there is/isn't a good; what the purpose of existance is or whether the outside world exists as we percieve it, amongst many others. It's unanswerable questions which make philosophy what it is...

[commiecrusader]

I think it might be something to do with the vast improvements in communications and travelling have 'made the world smaller'. I don't know any words that sum that up to make a name for the age though...

The Faster Communications And Travel Age???

The Age Of Improving Infrastructure???

Somebody help me.... :unsure:

[Zingu]

"The Great Boost"?


If you read my thread in Science, the human race has made a giant leap in a matter of decades while the rest of humanity it took a steady little increasing line to get up to that stage, we're skyrocketing in scientic development now! :blink:

[__ca va?]

I think we are living in an industrial revolution, but in the past 250 years there have been many of these, so it would be a bit boring to name every age after its industrial revolution :P Things that I think are specific about our time:

1.There is only one superpower which dominates the globe.
2.Liberty, democracy is spreading in the world.
3.Europe is being united.
4.China is becoming more powerful.
5.The differences between the Northern and the Southern side of the world are becoming bigger.

I also think that with the end of the Soviet Union an age was finished.

[Guest1]

The internet age.

[RedAnarchist]

How long is "our time" going to be? When did it start? The 70's? The 80's?

[Fidelbrand]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2004, 11:37 PM
"The Great Boost"?
add "capitalist" as an adjective, otherwise the name would be adorned with positivty~ <_< :P

[Edelweiss]

Postmodernism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern)

Although many historians say that also postmodernism is already over now.

[commiecrusader]

The internet age.
I think it could only be called the Internet Age if we stopped using the internet. Otherwise the Internet age will continue forever lol

[Yazman]

"The Age of Exploitation"

[Djehuti]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2004, 05:46 PM

The internet age.
I think it could only be called the Internet Age if we stopped using the internet. Otherwise the Internet age will continue forever lol
So you mean that we have stopped using, for example iron? ;)



How about, plastic age? Or information age?
Post industrial age? Post-modern age? Age of capitalism?

Well, it might very well depend on who is going to write history in the future...

[Rockfan]

How about "clueless blond age." You see lots of them these days.

[Latifa]

Actually most people are clueless these days.

[commiecrusader]

Good point Djehuti. I think it will be the Infrastructure Age.

Or the American Age if Bu&#036;h and the rest of those Neo-Conservative crackpots have their way.

[Monty Cantsin]

In some currents of sociology they call it the Post-modern age. But I think that’s a load of crap how can you be POST the now, it’s a bit of a paradox.

[Djehuti]

Originally posted by Monty [email protected] 3 2005, 11:22 PM
In some currents of sociology they call it the Post-modern age. But I think that’s a load of crap how can you be POST the now, it’s a bit of a paradox.
Its not "Post-now", its post-modern(ism).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism

In the modernist society, everything should be planned, classified and put in order.
We started to plan society, economics, everything. Creating new sorts of character, new races, new crimes, new everything down to the lowest level. It had both very possitive aspects and very negative. After around 1970 we have started to grow past modernism.
Economics for example should no longer be planned, the art should be more....strange.
Etc. Moe in the Simpsons once said that post modernism was wierd for the sake of wierd.

[kellyk]

How about the age of ultra-conservative imperialism?

2000-2008

The reign of terror, I mean of Bush.

[Kobbot 401]

the Age of Diplomatic Decay we go to war over anything and everything.

[FriedFrog]

Aren&#39;t we the Digital Age? <_<

I heard that somewhere. Couldn&#39;t tell you where, though.

[Kobbot 401]

why bother with naming out time when its going to be forgotten in a 100 years?

[R E V O L T]

it would all depend on the historian who names it.... or you never know if a new technology hits big in the next few years, which could lead the age of (void)

[pandora]

I think overall in terms of the environment I would call it the Third Dark Age, or the True Dark Age.

It might also be known as The Great Selfishness because humans became so selfish in their petty desires they nearly made all other species and themselves extinct.

IT could also be known as the Age of Globalization and Neo-Liberalism, when all the world governments were privatized into the hands of the elite officially.

I just heard the electric power of Nicarqua went to Spain and they are charging first world rates the same as Oakland, where people earn &#036;3 a day.

But perhaps that could be known as the Big Selfishness. I think Post-Modernism is an interesting concept. When I think of the Post-Modern Era I think of a time that declining, and this is what has been happening to real wages in terms of the poor, and leisure time and standard of living.

But I think eventually we will reach the tipping point and great good will occur, where we work to create a more sustainable world. It is happening with all of us ready to question the current paradigm&#33; :P

So maybe this will be known as "The Tipping Point&#33;"

[komsomol]

Imperialism (the highest stage of Capitalism, Capitalism in decay).

[choekiewoekie]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2004, 05:35 PM
Postmodernism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern)

Although many historians say that also postmodernism is already over now.
I agree on postmodernism.
And that doesnt mean the modern times are over, the two names stand next to each other.

And there is a name for my generation here, it is &#39;generaton mix&#39;. Cause the younger ones now want to have a great carrier, and a family (a relationship and a baby) , lots of friends, lots of fun, to travel around the world, have lots of stuff. They want to have it all, and make no choices between all of it.
I think it goes well with postmodernism..

[Marxist in Nebraska]

I would say we are in the capitalist age.

If I were to break it down a bit over the last century or so:

(This is specifically for the United States, periods for Europe or other parts of the world would be generalized a bit more.)

Before 1900-1935ish: Predatory capitalism

New Deal to about 1970: Period of reform, as close to social democracy as the U.S. ever got.

1970-now: Era of reaction... possible return to predatory capitalism, at least on the international scale (hopefully there will not be a return to 14 hour days in the factory, but it is already happening in U.S.-based corporations in Indonesia, etc.)