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tip Does "Information" qualify to name our age the "Information age" as we always tend to name it? Is "Information" the most basic quality of our age.. Is it really what the societies on this globe cares about. Is there another "entity" or "process" that is more vital? The question also applies to the "Internet" as well. So, is the "Internet" the most important fact of our lives?
 
 

Posted by sheikh on 10.09.2008
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Posted by sheikh on 05.10.2008
 

No, you see Razano, the problem didn't stem because we are consumers, or we want more. Rather, it was because how these needs were managed, and responded to... it was the rules or the system for responding to these needs.

Now these rules were the rules of capitalism. and these were formulated since centuries and still holding. So, we can safely name our age by the nature of the rules controlling needs. That is ok. but it is the specific rules of our time that we need to think of. And, to me, they are not commodities, nor services, but financial and monetary, and this is where the crisis exploded. If financials and monetary can take the whole economy of countries and continents with it, then they deserve to name our age.

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Posted by razano on 05.10.2008
 

I think we are at the social media age or going there pretty soon! sheikh i think what you are trying to say is the "consumerism" age, that's why everyone wants to consume to buy things they can't afford...and those institutions just couldn't stand silent without giving in to this huge demand in hopes of making big profits out of the middle or lower middle classes...

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Posted by sheikh on 03.10.2008
 

I am sorry Ghassan, but it seems, with the current Financial crisis in the US, and the susceptibility of other markets to this crisis, that our age is not the Information age. Rather, it is the financial age. Money, truly, is a big player in all times, but the specific forms, institutions, roles, impact on policies, money has taken in our current times make it the candidate for naming our age.

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Posted by Ghassan on 17.09.2008
 

Well, putting political propaganda aside, information is the main scene of this age (internet is a big part of this information revolution), it is also the post industrial (romantic era is also the post classic era in art).

As for genetics, I do believe that the next era will be about REAL EXTREME genetic revolution.. which it's only starting to crawl right now.

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Posted by sheikh on 17.09.2008
 
  1. "Our age is the age of the transformation of capitalism to socialism"--- The ill-fated soviet discourse.
  2. Our age is the Information age.
  3. Our age is "post industrial"
  4. Our age is the Internet age
  5. Our age is "genetic revolution"

etc.

So, what is the criteria... can we really find an answer to this eqaution: "Our age is XXXXXX". May be we should adopt a muli-dimensional answer, depending on the context. One might argue that we should find the core process of a certain age, where any quality is only a manifestation of the core process.

 

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Posted by Ghassan on 11.09.2008
 

I think we're still in the information age (too early for post-information age:)).. is information the core "feature" of these times.. yes, just look around you, what do you see: your mobile phone, a portable source of information (laptop with internet connection.. with all it's blogs, e-books, video sharing, etc), satellite TV channels that brings you information from all over the world at the convenience of your home.. it is defiantly the information age, it's every where you go, if any thing, we are WAY over-whelmed with information, it's a core element in every thing we do these days..

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Posted by Shalabieh on 10.09.2008
 

Interesting question sheikh... I would think that it is the age of information since it is available at our fingertips so to speak. But let me ask you this what were the previous ages called?

The one that comes to my mind is the dark ages... but what happened after that? the industrial age?

If we see what is in our history perhaps we can then hash out this quest dont you think?

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