10-29-2018, 12:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-29-2018, 12:49 PM by David Horn.)
(10-29-2018, 08:01 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Turnings are short term. Ages are much longer term. Civilizations divide by area. To make sense of history, you have to be aware of all three.
I wonder if the pace of change will make your statement, true as it is today, obsolete in a relatively short period of time. It's already the case that the saeculum may be longer than any New Age. Can Turnings be far behind?
If we look at the pace so far, the Hunter/Gatherer Age lasted for many 10s to 100s of millennia, depending on your demark for the emergence of humanity. The Agricultural Age lasted ~12 millennia. The Industrial age, 150-200 years. The Information Age already feels mature. Obviously, the pace is rising fast.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.