"Worldbuilding Rambles: Names, Technology, and ..." Topic

…Socio-technic maturity

"One quintessential desire that lies at the heart of Humanity is a desire to give things names not entirely factual. One example is in the naming of historical periods. The 'Dark Ages', the 'bronze age', 'iron age', and 'information age', are preferred over a statement of dates being considered, even when a more specific descriptor might be better(one reason is probably that it is easier to remember names than dates).

Now, the naming of historical periods is somewhat haphazard, but is often associated with a skill, technology, or trend specific to that time; each representing a level of technological maturity. Thus we have the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Machine Age(Industrial Revolution), Age of Electronics, Space Age, Age of Information, and many more. It appears that Human history on a global scale can be outlined as stages of technical progression. It happens on a smaller scale with individual countries and cultures, although faster and with less consistently…."
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