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We had the Renaissance, Victorian era, Industrial Revolution etc etc.
What do you think this epoch will be known as?
You can be serious or jokey, it's all good!
Elizabethan!
The age of oil and plastic wastage.
Iirc it’s the age of the train.
The Age of Selfishness
The Good Old Days
Pre-FTL.
Anthropocene is the current epoch. aka the Holocene Extinction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
It won’t be called anything. You assume that there will be someone to write the history.
I thought it had been named, information age/digital age?
I've always thought we'll be seen as the most wasteful most polluting period in human history, at least I hope it improves in future! At least this year maybe less polluting might set a trend so perhaps the Environmental Revolution over next couple of decades. Wishful thinking?
The age of the selfish W*****r.
For multiple reasons.
Pornhubiferous
The whole world? Or just this forum?
Middle Age.
The Age of Clubcard Points
information age/digital age?
I think the Information Age has been and gone. I think our current moment is defined more by miss information.
The age of waste
The age of endless greed...
4th Industral Revolution
The age of Muppets
I'm with fooman - age of the Environment.
Populist age.
Borisian
I’ve always thought we’ll be seen as the most wasteful most polluting period in human history, at least I hope it improves in future!
Er. You do realise that the industrial revolution led to industries which were far more polluting than we are now. Added to infrastructure problems which led to issues like sewage being dumped raw into the streets and rivers & I think you are displaying a lack of appreciation of the world we have now.
The age of endless topics on the C virus obvs
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You do realise that the industrial revolution led to industries which were far more polluting than we are now. Added to infrastructure problems which led to issues like sewage being dumped raw into the streets and rivers & I think you are displaying a lack of appreciation of the world we have now.
By the end of this year, more than half of all industrial emissions of carbon dioxide since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution will have been released since 1988 — the year it became widely known that these emissions are warming the climate.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/peter-frumhoff/global-warming-fact-co2-emissions-since-1988-764
The age of the Partially Educated Know-it-all Reactionary Narcissistic Two Faced Liars.
The Me Me Me Age
The contemporary age
Trumpnarcissism age
The Electric Age.
In much the same way the Stone and Iron Age were how those resources influenced the ‘growth’ of humankind.
Imagine your life without electricity. Sobering thought eh?
The whole world? Or just this forum?
Middle Age.
Heresy - burn him.
The age of flounce
The Entitled Age.
Unchecked capitalism.
I think in a few hundred years we’ll look back and realise how crazy it was to just believe the lies propagated that the markets work for everyone’s best interests.
Apologies in advance...
I have no idea what this time will be known as when it is finally officially named, however, once it is, I'm pretty certain it will go viral
Unchecked capitalism.
I find the off thing is that despite we’ve lived quite happily and obliviously in a capatilist framework for years, the observational attempts to gain capatislist advantage - e.g. Sports Direct, £150 Hand Sanitiser on Amazon - are disgusting to many people, and the fit healthy and well minded types are wondering where all this government money is suddenly coming from.
The Last Age of the Humans.
That's what the robots will call it anyway.
To be fair you can't spend the money twice.
The age of many wheel sizes
The Age of Selfishness
the age of the car on credit on the drive gathering dust ..
'when the idiots got found out'
Age of the keyboard warrior
I did think this thread would bring out all the doomsayers.
People have been predicting that their age would be the end of days since the beginning of days. An eternal slide into what must be a very deep abyss. I guess eventually one of them will be right.
A lower % of people live in extreme poverty than ever before. Life expectancy has never been better. We have technology our ancestors couldn't even dream of. As shit as the current situation is, imagine the death rate with living standards, medical care and logistics as they were a hundred years ago.
The Enlightenment was a long period of time (>100years). If you defined our age as from when computing took off to some point in the future, there's every chance people will look back on it as an extraordinary period of advancement and improvement.