12-29-2020, 04:56 PM
(12-29-2020, 09:23 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I still like the age boundaries.
The four are hunter gatherer, Agricultural, Industrial, Information. The weapons are rocks, swords, gunpowder and nukes. Power is provided by humans, animals, steam engines and renewable. Information is stored by memory, writing, printing, computer networks.
Feel free to develop alternate names, but it is an established field of study.
And as you know, so is spiral dynamics, which includes these, but adds others; and my Planetary Dynamics, which adds a few more to those, and the civilization cycle as well as S&H cycles and other cycles, which add still more. History is full of interesting cycles and times of transition from old ways to new ways.