What would you call the age we live in? When I was a kid, we were told that Machine Age had been superseded by the Atomic Age. But that was marketing of sorts. Anyway, nuclear energy and the ability to incinerate the world have become mundane topics. We might be in the Computer Age, but that term soon will be as musty as new-fangled “horseless carriages” and “talkie movies.”
I think we all flatter ourselves that we are blessed to be “modern,” up-to-the-minute (if not quite hip). So is this the Modern Age?
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