Ä°t may be called age of communication&information, said someones.
wide range of people can access what the internet brings. actually the internet is not a big deal. the only advantage of it is being another media besides tv. Epistomologic collapse arises from two of them. People are in a bomberdiment with the flow of information which is useless and wrong. also the internet is a garbage. however, of course it can be used in a way that is functional. it is making us communicate with someone else who is at the otherside of the world. For instance, i am in turkey and have an opportunity that allow me write and convey what i think to an american forum and it's really a big deal.
and it's still early to be said that we are at the age of space and its exploring. early stages of humanity discovered the lands and seas. The generation that will be born in a few centruies later will discover the space. but now we are discovering the internet...it's not that bad.
ultimately we came to a conclusion that we must understand we are at the beginning stages of a new era. The world has been changing so fast and the process still continues. according to the time which is 100 years ago, there has been tremendous evolution by means of the technology and the philosophy which shapes the wiev we look to the world and its inhabitants who are us. Petrolium reserves are increasing and this kind of energy is not sustainable. it will be consumed a little time later and we will encounter with the energy crisis. Our population is still growing. we multiplies at the rate of insect's growth and the world's resources won't be able to supply the whole population. Someones must say stop to this ongoing situation.
actually we may be in III. world war...and the world and humanity wil come to a new philosophy...
Early Information Age (tech level 8) - characterized by major advances in computing and mass communications. Succeeded by the Space Age. (Collectively known as the Dark Age of Technology)
Quote from: Hydra009 on December 03, 2015, 02:14:19 PM
Early Information Age (tech level 8) - characterized by major advances in computing and mass communications. Succeeded by the Space Age. (Collectively known as the Dark Age of Technology)
Good speculation. But that's unbelieveble, althouhg i am an agnostic and give a chance that there might be some kind of ''gods'' can be thought of. archeologic and evolutionary biologic eviences together provides us to ''believe'' that we are the original and natural kind that only the earth produced. there is no another factor by means of relating ''out of the earth''...
I would call this the early stage of the Internet, actually pretty much the dark ages. As per the "upload a pic to the forum" thread, a good point was made before things degenerated; Imagine having to use little HTML doodads to upload a pic and having to store photos someplace else on the Internet, which are then accessed by this site, and that's the way most forums are (Facebook excluded), but Facebook is huge. Here we have to donate small amounts of money via Pay Pal just to keep what we've got up and running. We can't afford more server space to store that much data. I'm guessing in the future, someone will write a sub program that makes uploading pics a simple user friendly process, and this sub routine will be some kind of plug available to forum designers.
I don't mind having to learn how to do what we do with pics here. It's not hard, although it might be for some people, but it seems like some unusual fiddling around to do it. I think in a few years, the millennials will be boring 20 year olds with stories about the old days of the Internet, and people will laugh and wonder how we managed with such primitive tools. Maybe they will wonder how the millennials managed to fuck up the planet too. Who knows?
There are always going to be people who have a difficult time with technology and the sometimes byzantine nature of the internet. And yes, someone could (and probably will) come along with a new site or app that could take most headache out of the process.
Though compared to the old days, what we have now is amazing. It wasn't so long ago that the internet was almost all text with a 200x300 pixel image per news article, if that. Searching for relevant and reliable information wasn't particularly easy. E-commerce was a new and frightening thing. And streaming anything? Forget about it. Fairly recently, I linked to a 50+ page PDF and gave out my customary PDF warning. Someone asked me why I even gave out that warning. I actually forgot that nowadays, practically everyone has broadband and clicking the link would no longer slow down people's browsers as it loads the PDF like it used to.
We live lives of ease and get bent out of shape at the slightest hardship, both online and offline.
It already has several names.
Cenozic Era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenozoic) (Age of Mammals)
Holocene Epoch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene)
Holocene Extinction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction)
Some propose ending the Holocene Epoch with the industrial revolution and starting the Anthropocene Epoch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene)
Information Age (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Age)
Do we really need more?
The age of the death of the ability to spell….and grammar… don't forget grammar.
Its the age of aquarius
Near the end of the Information Age.
We're in the Information Age, which I'm sure in time will be compared to the Industrial Revolution. Who knows, a historian may someday read this thread long after we're all dead using the Way Back Machine or something similar. Just on the off chance that's who's currently reading, definitely try to retrieve its archives. It will show you how things looked at the dawn of the internet.
https://archive.org/web/
Quote from: _Xenu_ on December 03, 2015, 05:47:58 PM
We're in the Information Age, which I'm sure in time will be compared to the Industrial Revolution. Who knows, a historian may someday read this thread long after we're all dead using the Way Back Machine or something similar. Just on the off chance that's who's currently reading, definitely try to retrieve its archives. It will show you how things looked at the dawn of the internet.
https://archive.org/web/
https://web.archive.org/web/19981205211937/http://www.foxkids.com/
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Kardashian Era.
Caitlyn Jenner Era.
The Era of Cait.
Transjenner Era.
People in general pay more attention to the Kardashians than they pay attention to what's going on around the world. Mainstream media won't STFU about this infotainment crap when big stuff is happening around the world. Why waste people's time with real news when you can let them know how Caitlyn Kardashian's week went? That's what we really want to know, right? Kardashian Era sounds about right.
Quote from: Hydra009 on December 03, 2015, 02:14:19 PM
Early Information Age (tech level 8) - characterized by major advances in computing and mass communications. Succeeded by the Space Age. (Collectively known as the Dark Age of Technology)
Doesn't the term "Dark Age" generally imply that something better preceded it?
This is the age in which dummies highjacked the internet and reign supreme. Call it the Age of Stultus.
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on December 04, 2015, 12:39:13 PM
Doesn't the term "Dark Age" generally imply that something better preceded it?
It's a Warhammer 40k reference. The "Dark Age" of Technology was actually one of unparalleled technological mastery and personal freedom that the current despotic regime paints as horrible. Its name is intentionally ironic.
Quote from: Hydra009 on December 04, 2015, 01:31:10 PM
It's a Warhammer 40k reference. The "Dark Age" was actually one of unparalleled technological mastery and personal freedom that the current despotic regime paints as horrible. Its name is intentionally ironic.
I know it's a 40k reference, I've made many myself, it just seemed a little out of place. :P
I also meant it as a tongue-in-cheek assertion that we're at the pre-catastrophe stage on the 40k timeline.
Quote from: FaithIsFilth on December 04, 2015, 11:50:50 AM
Kardashian Era.
Caitlyn Jenner Era.
The Era of Cait.
Transjenner Era.
People in general pay more attention to the Kardashians than they pay attention to what's going on around the world. Mainstream media won't STFU about this infotainment crap when big stuff is happening around the world. Why waste people's time with real news when you can let them know how Caitlyn Kardashian's week went? That's what we really want to know, right? Kardashian Era sounds about right.
I remember one deep thinker type in college who said, "If you really want to know what's happening in America, read Dear Abby and Teen Forum." It's starting to make sense to me now. :biggrin:
I call this age "the calm before the storm."
Quote from: FaithIsFilth on December 04, 2015, 11:50:50 AM
Kardashian Era.
Caitlyn Jenner Era.
The Era of Cait.
Transjenner Era.
People in general pay more attention to the Kardashians than they pay attention to what's going on around the world. Mainstream media won't STFU about this infotainment crap when big stuff is happening around the world. Why waste people's time with real news when you can let them know how Caitlyn Kardashian's week went? That's what we really want to know, right? Kardashian Era sounds about right.
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