The Golden Age and What's Next?

[wsp9]

Ok, so we're in the Golden Age. Everywhere you look everyone is completely consumed by the thought of making more money -having more gold. So, what's next? What's the next age to come? We saw the iron age, the bronze age, and now what else? Let's all get on that band wagon.

[trillianjedi]

The beer age?

[Elliott Hird]

The EvenMoreGoldenHype(tm) Stage of Web 3.14159265.

[ska_demon]

We are in the age of black gold.

So lets all jump on the bandwagon, invade some countries, terrorise some others and steal from the rest (including our own).

The Black Golden Age

Ska

[grandpa]

Based on what I believe, we are only half-way thru this Golden Age. After that, it's gonna get bad, real bad. Then, the whole cycle of ages begins anew. (There are 4 distinct ages)

Fortunately
a) Brett won't let me post details (TOS)
b) Nobody really wants to hear them anyway
c) I don't have to look up the facts

[Raymond]

According to the Mayan's calendar, we'll all be doomed in 2012 anyway. So I second the beer age!

[DamonHD]

Hmm,

I disagree: not "everyone is completely consumed by the thought of making more money" at all IMHO.

I'm happy to have less, so as to spend more time at home with my baby daughter and my pet distributed Java projects, for a start!

What about a SETI age, where we welcome our new overlords/friends/etc from outer space (or the civil service, I sometimes think!)...

Rgds

Damon

[httpwebwitch]

The post-industrial age is evolving into a new economy where wealth can be gained by not manufacturing goods. We're entering the age of hyper-efficiency, where negawatts (energy saved by reuse, recycling, and services that enable efficiency) will start being traded as valuably as megawatts.

Hybrid cars and wind power going mainstream is just the beginning. Oil is dead.

I don't refute the doomed ecology view; we are still in a spiral of destroying the world. I do predict that people are soon going to be scrambling to squeeze kilowatts out of every resource we have.