How will this age be remembered?

   The invention of the computer and the technology that make possible its most powerful tool, the internet, will be this age's claim to destiny. These twin juggernauts are changing the face of information exchange, allowing all human endeavors...art, science, medicine, capitalism to grow exponentially. It is entirely likely we are not only able to crack open our own brains and share the wealth, but that we are creating a poweful meta-intelligence thru our million bits of posted information. The computer is the most important development for mankind since the wheel, and we watched it hatch!

I would have to agree with chopra, but he is considering it on such a deeper more analytical base that the masses may not concern themselves with. Some may refer to this small period as the technological medieval times as he describes. But I think in at least American text-books, much of our history will be shadowed by the two-term bush presidency. His blunders and small accomplishments which I cannot think of off the top of me head. They will remember the massive cultural boom of youtube and the internet. Of Iphones and the innovations in movies and even the writers strike. The world will be remembered for its clashes. Venezuala, Darfur, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon. The middleeast will be the center of this age as 9/11, madrid, and the uk bombings have defined for so many this region in postive and negative light. It is sad to say we are growing up in a greater industrial revolutionary age where pollution will create greater global warming problems, even as we try to become greener. I find that if we are going to define this past decade this way, the next two years will change the definition of our world. And the following 10 years will prove if we can improve our world or leave it worse for the next generation.

Haha, I agree! I imagine the present as being looked upon in the future as a period of transitional transgression against perhaps the natural law, or the way things should / could / would work, based upon humanitarian values which will supplant all flawed societal constructs, hopefully in the near future. Or we may just die, if we cross that threshold from where there's no turning back and the damage that's been done cannot be reversed.