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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

That's why we name our ages after the materials within. Material science is the foundation for almost all other physical sciences.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

How do you account for Space age and Information age?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

We're currently in the information age, which is due to silicon. In a few hundred years, this time may reasonably be called the silicon age. Society has only recently transferred to the silicon age from the previous iron age. If we don't cause a total collapse of our society, then we will be in the silicon age for a few hundred more years, and that will likely include space colonization.

The space age you're referring to is likely the 60s, when space exploration was beginning. A decade or two isn't long enough to be considered an age.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

the information age is easy: the silicon age!

not sure about the space age...maybe titanium age? that's about the time we figured out how to machine titanium on large scales, and for highly specialized, extreme applications (talking about the SR-71 here, mostly). could also call it the alloy age, since a number of important alloys were discovered around that time

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I thought it was atomic age and information age...

Or was that just empire earth...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's the industrial age too. Which I guess you could also call "The Age of Steam" or "The Age of Coal" or some other thing.

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