03-24-2019, 01:40 PM
(03-23-2019, 08:43 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:(03-12-2019, 08:26 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: BTW, Orion's Arm claim that "Information Age" begun in 2000 makes no sense. It's better to call the millennial saeculum Information Age (TV went mainstream during the 1T, it's information too!)
So are books. And oral tales. And these used to have a better signal to noise ratio.
Indeed. The Orions' term seems quite silly, Electronic Age would be a better name. In the same convention, Great Power saeculum can be called Industrialization Age.
