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Are we in the golden age of anything?
I know kinda deep question I was wondering after watching the Daytona 500 video someone posted earlier.
I would say we are definitely in the golden age of horsepower and performance cars. Probably the fury and storm before autonomous cars and the EPA take over the world. Certainly not music, professional sports, or movies. Maybe in 20 years we will realize otherwise.
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Yes. I don't really watch television, but Breaking Bad is just killer. There are others as well, I just haven't seen them. So I would say golden age of quality television. (Reality TV is not part of this).
Also: Guitars. Guitar amps. Effects pedals. Fly rods. Beer. I see lots of "super premium" things today. Coffee is one. I live in Portland, we have killer food for cheap. And strip clubs - not really my thing but there are lots of them. Answer: yes. We are in the golden age of many things. |
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Sensor technology - small FLIR, hyper-spectral and Li-DAR cameras have crushed Moore's Law.
Small electric motors, turbines, composites, 3-D printing...UAS autonomy, learning. We are in the golden age of shrinkage.
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Elon Musk might have a say in something or other.
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I might argue that we aren't in the golden age of anything right now, especially when compared to golden ages in the past. Does anything today rival, not only in their greatness, but more importantly their innovation and novelty, originality and uniqueness to mediums of accepted golden ages in the past?
100 years into the future, what will mark our time now as exceptional and newly peculiar to us? Smart phones and social media? God I hope we are remembered for more than that.
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Certainly we are in a golden age of food.
So much so that we get selective food factions getting all picky over food minutia.. vegans, localvores, shade-grown-organic snobs... Hell, there's even one company selling protein bars made of crickets.  Quote:
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Political correctness but I think it would be better termed the Dark Ages.
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craft beer? Seems like there are more craft/mirco breweries that ever.
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Prune Farming!
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Some say we are in "The second machine age" living in a time of astonishing progress with digital technologies.
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"The Second Machine Age"
work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee |
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Porn.
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Robotic manufacturing and assembly lines. Container shipping technology.
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