Thursday, April 24, 2008

Our Age

We talk about the Stone Age, the Bronze age, the Iron Age, etc., identifying the people who lived at those times with their artifacts.  We believed for several decades that we lived in the Atomic Age, but that seems to have passed as we've sought ways to fight each other without atom bombs.  It's going to be tough to replace "Atomic Age," though, because the ages are changing so rapidly now.  The Stone Age lasted thousands of years, but our ages last barely decades. We left the Phonograph Age to become the Magnetic Tape Age and then the CD age. We left the Film Age for the VCR Age and then the DVD Age. Right now we're in the AI age.

Be that as it may, sometimes I don't feel like living in an "age." How about just living, definition free? We could call it the "living age."

Conspiracy Theories (Updated)

"Conspire" means "breathe together" in Latin.  Conspiracy is intimate.  The conspirators are vulnerable to each other,...