(February 5, 2019 at 8:25 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(January 29, 2019 at 8:09 pm)Aegon Wrote: Right now we seem to be living in the Electronic Age.
I don't think so. I would call this age the Oil Age, because everything we have today we have because of oil: all sorts of energy (for travel, mining, growing food...), plastics, chemicals and even electricity (sure some of it comes from other sources but remove oil and with time even those sources will stop). I mean if we stopped using the oil then we would be going to the previous stage which was what? Steam Age? Iron Age? Muscle Age?
I hope next age will be Nuclear Fusion Age, meaning that "we" will not only get electricity from nuclear fusion but also creating materials by heating atoms of one kind until they become atoms of another kind (kind of what stars do today).
But maybe it becomes just Nuclear Fission Age with the development of better and safer nuclear reactors
All the extractable energy from oil and coal were ultimately sourced from nuclear fusion, in the sun. So we already live in the nuclear fusion age, and our ancesters have been since the beginning of life on earth.
