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When do "modern times" begin for you?
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Hm. For me I'd put it at 9/11 as that's the defining moment in my life where I started paying attention to the world (I was 12). Plus, so much of our political discussion ranges around pre and post 9/11 that it's hard not to see that as a huge marker of some kind.
Modern Times, for me, begins when Charlie Chaplin appears on screen.
The Medieval era didn't truly end until the second half of the 1500s - the 1400s and first half of the 1500s seemed to be Late Medieval. Early Modern is the late 1500s up to the 1700s, with the Modern era being the 1800s and 1900s, and the Contemporary Modern era coming about roughly between 1945 to 1965.
The now distant 1990s era does not fit neatly into ten years, but is roughly sandwiched between the fall of the Berlin Wall-Soviet collapse and 9/11-Iraqi invasion. Everything since then is comparatively recent.
The now distant 1990s era does not fit neatly into ten years, but is roughly sandwiched between the fall of the Berlin Wall-Soviet collapse and 9/11-Iraqi invasion. Everything since then is comparatively recent.
That still hasn't happened.
^That's great! but what's your view on the topic?
Sorry couldn't resist. But I already posted further up the page that I'm another person here who thinks the Industrial Revolution marks the beginning of what I think is the "modern times".
Maybe its wrong to tie it more to technology than social events but then, the revolution has significantly altered the lives of people ever since.
I got what you were asking, but for me the historical and personal perspective are intrinsically linked. You listed things you considered the trappings of modern society (personal computers and so forth), as did I. Mine just came several decades earlier.
I think mine came several centuries earlier. Thing is; if someone explains to a 19th century person what a neutrino is, they will understand the language if not the concepts (much like a huge percentage of people alive today) and, dare I say it, an 18th century person.
The French Revolution. Cause uhh... that's how my uni defines "early modern history".
From a historical standpoint I think I'd peg it around 1800 or thereabouts. More recently from around 1900. From a personal standpoint about 1950.
In the context of today's world, I'd have to say around 1980.
This isn't perfect but it's how I'd split the difference between starting to become modern (c. 1955) and being completely modern (c. 2005). I also think 1980 in general, not just mathematically, was the tipping point between how things were and how they are.
This isn't perfect but it's how I'd split the difference between starting to become modern (c. 1955) and being completely modern (c. 2005). I also think 1980 in general, not just mathematically, was the tipping point between how things were and how they are.
Although it was a good few decades before I was born, I would say for me, the period of about ten-fifteen years after the Second World War marks the beginning of "the modern times."
For better or worse, the UN was created along with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Union was beginning to form and the British, French and other Empires ceased. It's also the period when America and Russia began carving up the globe and we had the ability to bring about our own extinction (or come bloody close) through the use of Atomic weapons.
For better or worse, the UN was created along with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Union was beginning to form and the British, French and other Empires ceased. It's also the period when America and Russia began carving up the globe and we had the ability to bring about our own extinction (or come bloody close) through the use of Atomic weapons.
Around 2006/2007. Cell phones with text messaging, as well as high speed internet, they all were ubiquitous by this point, and the world as I know it began taking its current form.
Then I'll go with post WWII.
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