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Industrial Age

Proper noun

Meaning

Industrial Age

the time of the Industrial Revolution

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms. Peter Senge

The clock not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age. Lewis Mumford

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee. Douglas Rushkoff

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change. Daniel Greenberg

The big will have a different kind of bigness. The network economy encourages the middle space. It supplies technology (which the industrial age could not) to nurture mid-sized wonders. Kevin Kelly (editor)

In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is. Douglas Rushkoff

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