Do we still live in Iron Age?

>>3169962
No.

>>3169962
No, and I've always wondered what future historians will call our era. The Steel age?

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>>3169985
The aluminum age, we use it more than steel. Aluminum used to be so difficult to create that it was more valuable than gold.

>>3169985
Carbon fiber age?

>>3169993
>>3169995
not plastic age?

>>3169985
Taken from the notes of first grader living in 1 000 000 AD:

>Physical age (30 000 BC - 2 000 AD)
Human learned to subjugate solid metals and raw natural resources

>Physics age (2 000 AD - 100 000 AD)
Humans learned to exploit the laws of universe and starting space-travel

>Space age (100 000 AD - 500 000 AD)
Humans colonize the universe

>Metaphysics age (500 000 AD >)
Humans colonizing and exploring other dimensions

>>3169985
Petroleum age, tbqhwf

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Yep

>>3169985
The optic fiber age

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What year did the Iron Age end, and why?
>>3169993
Interesting choice, it echoes the reasons Iron replaced bronze: cheaper, easier to manufacture.
>>3169995
>>3169998
Composites age?
>>3170024
Too broad. It would be like calling this "the age of humans". And what's so special about the year 2000? Why not the year we put a man in space, the year that the great acceleration began, the year Newtonian mechanics were introduced, or even galileo's trial when the first distinctions between philosophy and science were codified? Our own calendar is based off of an event which went completely unnoticed in its time.
>>3170096
Petrol is a means of energy production, where stone, copper, bronze, and iron are all construction materials. Ditto for >>3170146 which is technology for information transfer.

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>>3169962
>Do we still live in Iron Age?
No we live in the post ironic age

>>3170453
The end of the Iron age is about the fall of Western Rome, since that is considered the beginning of the Middle Ages.

Defining ages through metals was because these brought about societal, cultural, and military changes.

I would say petroleum has changed society in more ways than any metal. This allowed us to power machines, create plastic (driving costs of tools and goods way down), exponentially reduce travel time. I don't see anything else that could compare.

>>3170146
Too specific. It would be lumped into an Information age of Computer Age.

>>3169962
Information Age

>>3169985
>The Steel age?
The Alloy age.

>>3171504
alloys have been used in history since forever tho

>>3171539
As have everything. Composites are older than alloys, but alloys built literally everything about our modern world and will continue to do so. I would call it either the Alloy or Carbon age/Allotrope age.

Possibly the age of innovation?

>>3169962
The porn age

>>3169962

No, we left the iron age when we invented Aliuminum, and left the Aluminum age when we started making synthetic elements in particle accelerators.

I thought it went industrial age, then the nuclear age, and now we're in the information/computer age.

>>3169985

They unitonically call it the Information Age.