The "Quantum Age" - 21st century designation.

[BrightQuark]

Whilst watching a programme this week on measurement and the history of science I picked up on the designation "Quantum Age".

 

Although dealing with the history of measurement, and suggesting that improved temperature accuracy is becoming very important to science, esp. in areas such as engineering ( one area where batter understanding of heat measurement is sorely required) and by way of one example -- this should eventually allow companies like Rolls Royce to improve aircraft engines enabling greater fuel efficiency and ....

 

wait... back on topic warning ... so anyway, naturally quantum computers cropped up and the naming of our new century too ... as

 

THE QUANTUM AGE

 

... now, that sounds fine, but if you were a betting man, and were to transport yourself forward by 50 or even 100 years, what do you think the history of science books would refer to this period of time as, or even more speculatively, what designations could follow that age, I somehow feel that the latter is impossible to answer at this time.

 

 

addendum:-

Science seems to be at critical juncture, either q.m will continue to provide answers, or perhaps the "theory of everything" will stall, and if so, physics will have to rethink almost everything achieved to date (loosely defined and provocative statement, but, you kjnow...) and so how do we see things as shaping up, are we seeing for example "reliable patterns" on continuation already forming, or are we indeed, heading into entirely unknown territory?

Edited June 29, 2013 by BrightQuark

[EdEarl]

We are in an age of future shock with discoveries and developments occurring ever more quickly. When the AGI singularity occurs, we may be unable to comprehend the changes. I suspect the quantum age will be history before the end of the century, replaced by one or two more ages--if an age can be considered so short. Was there a nuclear age, an electronics age, or an information age? Are we in an environmental destruction age? Will there be a climate change age?

 

Maybe historians will call it a potpourri age.