We be Mega-3T; we are entering a Mega-4T.

[David Horn]

(08-01-2020, 03:44 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(08-01-2020, 03:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: You mean Thoreau 1849, and Industrial Age after World War II. I think when the ecology crisis and movement came in, in the sixties. But the obsolescence of nuclear war came in after WWII, except I don't think people really understood that until the anti-war movement and the diplomatic efforts of JFK onward. It was mutually-assured fear before then. And of course, Dr. Strangelove in 1964. Awakening began that year.

You have to expect a little fudge factor on things like age and turning boundaries.  Somebody is going to say but but but...  

But the Information Age has as its major attributes computers, nukes, and proxy war.  With the Bentley Park machines, the nukes at the end of the war, and Gandhi and King making their non violent appearance soon after, a plausible case could be made for the end of World War II.  A little later, perhaps, but the early markers were there.  As with the prior boundary, you can't expect everything to happen at once.  Things were moving faster by this time, so it is tighter than the prior time, but maybe.  

At least the argument is over a shorter piece of time.

The real problem is relating historical artifacts.  Social history, where most people do their living, is strongly impacted by economic, scientific and political history, but not necessarily in real time.  For example, the impact of a distant war or virtually all trade treaties has a delayed effect, while wars closer to home or trade embargoes are more immediate.  And how do you evaluate the impact of something as defining as the Internet?  We know it's had a major impact now and will for a long time to come, but it didn't in the 1960s when it was conceived.  On the other hand, the space race seems to be almost a nothing burger today, but it wasn't 50 years ago.