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Originally posted by OzzyKP
media = communications = information
so Information Age.
media = communications = information
so Information Age.
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You are putting a pretty positive spin on it... but don't crap me now...Originally posted by germanos
That's a rather small window. The Bronze and Iron Age weren't named for their weapons, but for their tools. There's a lot more use for these metals then just weaponry
. The gunpowder age is a ridiculous phrase and not used commonly.
The industrial Age: well you described very well where it got it's designation from.
Atomic: not from blowing two bombs, but for harnessing it as fuel.
The first person who figured out how to make a bronze "tool"... what do you think he used that tool for? How long until these tools were used for weapons?
War has usually been a driving force for technological advancement... human history has been one giant arms race.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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By that equation a more fitting tag would be Confusion Age.Originally posted by OzzyKP
media = communications = information
so Information Age.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Hmmm.Originally posted by Sava
You are putting a pretty positive spin on it... but don't crap me now...
The first person who figured out how to make a bronze "tool"... what do you think he used that tool for? How long until these tools were used for weapons?
War has usually been a driving force for technological advancement... human history has been one giant arms race.
I tend to agree with you...Evolution is one great arms race, be it stealth or razor.
The majority of bronze and iron artefacts recovered from excavations isn't weapons though, it's jewelry
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It's because the weapons weren't left behind. They were more valuable.Originally posted by germanos
The majority of bronze and iron artefacts recovered from excavations isn't weapons though, it's jewelry
To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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The R age
"I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
"You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:Comment
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The Convenient AgeLong time member @ Apolyton
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The Americans Were Too Obese To Save Europe's Ass For The Third Time In A Row AgeI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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The Globalization Agehttp://www.hardware-wiki.com - A wiki about computers, with focus on Linux support.Comment
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The Cabb Age...
Give us a few more hours, I may come out with another one...Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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I think more people should laugh at this post.Originally posted by Q Cubed
If it's the "Age of the Orient", does that make the previous, Western-dominated eras Occidental in nature?Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Yes, Rome has gotten its ass handed to it too many times to stand in comparison with the US.Originally posted by germanos
While there is a 'Roman Age', there's no 'British Age' (which blends in with the industrial age.)
The same will be for the US. It has had significant influence in the 20th century but it has never been fundamentaly different then it's ancestors (old Europe). Furthermore the US is no Rome: it has gotten it's ass handed too often a time to stand up to the comparison.Comment
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Re: 'Age of Imperialism' has a ring to it. What age are we in?
I think calling it The Age of Redundancy, the age of redundancy would be fine, just fineOriginally posted by Lancer
The Age of Redundancy
The Age of Redundancy
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With all the lying scoundral around, how about "The Disinformation Age"Originally posted by OzzyKP
The Information Age
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