(April 24, 2022 at 5:40 pm)Quill01 Wrote: @Belacqua for the characteristics of the modern age I would say the invention of computers as well as with machines that have computers in them with AI programs plus the invention of the internet. Also after world war 2 ended setting up the united nations, cold war, sending humans to the moon for the first time and being in space plus the human genome project. Lastly, a educational revolution that started in the 1970s were many people or the masses for the first time went to colleges and/or university's that changed the world or had a big impact on it although I don't know how true or accurate that is. I based that on a old historical movie I saw over 5 years ago about that very subject
You can certainly define "modern" that way if you want to. It's one of those words with no clear set of boundaries, so the period it refers to can vary quite a bit.
I agree with you that the changes you mention -- computers, political changes after WWII, greater university enrollment -- are significant changes from what came before. Whether that constitutes "modernity" or not is a judgment call.
I suspect that any time we use the word "modern" in a careful way, we have to begin by defining what we mean by it exactly.
