# Can we move on to a new "age" please?

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**Created:** [May 26, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-move-on-to-a-new-age-please/358316 "2006-05-26T14:49:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-move-on-to-a-new-age-please/358316/41 "2006-05-27T10:29:09Z")

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We are in the Technic Age.

Technological leaps drive world politics, economics, & social change.

Who was it that proposed the term “Technic Civilization”? Poul Anderson?

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-move-on-to-a-new-age-please/358316/42 "2006-05-27T10:50:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Fromage A Trois]

I thought that too - obviously we’re not in the Information Age, or we’d both have known.

Perhaps we’re in the Misinformation Age?  
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Well mis-information or not, the digital age was a precurser to the information age. Digital technology eventually gave way to the internet (internet age?), where we can choose where and who we get news and other information, real time in some cases.

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