What's the name of our epoch?

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Does anyone has an idea for a name?
Some call it "post card war"... but it's more an expression of nothing. It says nothing essential about our time.

For example, chain calls this epoch "the time of strategic opportunities". This says a lot.
 

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Does anyone has an idea for a name?
Some call it "post card war"... but it's more an expression of nothing. It says nothing essential about our time.

For example, chain calls this epoch "the time of strategic opportunities". This says a lot.
Not chain calls it "the time of strategic opportunities", but China.

Sorry
 

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Just for clarity the term anthropocene is the one used by archaeologists. It marks an age where mankind's impact is found everywhere. The nuclear bombs have left a trace which can be detected in every single square meter of the globe's land surface. Additionally human pollution (plastic and carbon) is ubiquitous.
 

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It’s either the epoch of belief or of incredulity. I’m not sure which.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
 

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Just for clarity the term anthropocene is the one used by archaeologists. It marks an age where mankind's impact is found everywhere. The nuclear bombs have left a trace which can be detected in every single square meter of the globe's land surface. Additionally human pollution (plastic and carbon) is ubiquitous.
I followed many discussion about this topic. In general the agreement is, that we can't talk about an anthropocene. We way destroy our environment and we have left some small nuclear traces, but that's stiĺl not enough to ensure that archaeologs in 10 million years would find anything that proves our dominance.
The main reason is, that we don't exist long enough.

But the main problem is, your suggestion would describe the timescale of whole mankind. But I was asking for a name for a time scale of maybe 20 - 60 years.
 

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Maybe not, however I do think it describes one of the more prominent developments of the last few decades.
It definitely is a major trend of the past decades, but we only have seen the tip of the iceberg.

What if Watt would have started the industrial development, but not Europe and N.America would have profited from it, but the colonies in Africa and Asia. Would we still call it industrialization, or would we have a different name for it, like China has a different name for that age?

In this context, I would argue it's Asia that will call this, or next age "the digital age". If we don't participate from it as much as Asia does, we probably will choose a different name.
 

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I think you mean historical era not epoch.

Geologic epochs delineate rock layers laid down. I don't even agree that the Holocene--which "began" a mere 12,000 years ago--should be considered anything other than another interglacial period in the Pleistocene. It's way too soon to say whether the Holocene or Anthropocene mark new epochs let alone whether the Pleistocene is over.

Post Cold War, Post-Modern World, Pax Americana, Atomic Age, Digital Age? Take your pick. All are still running. So is the Fossil Fuel Age where we take all the carbon-based fuels out of the ground and burn them. What we don't burn we make into disposable plastics which are choking the oceans.
 
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If there's anything you want to know or see (pictures of big cocks, for instance) you can find it in half a second. The Information Age?

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