It will not be a better age, and it is certainly not a richer age, except materially.
In an earlier, richer age, visitors approaching the city on camel-back after a month-long desert crossing were greeted by mango trees bearing golden fruit.
For this new class, economic theories shaped by the harsh conditions of mass poverty have no relevance, being ill-suited to the realities of a much richer age.
Sales of Beiersdorf's Nivea have grown at 14% a year over the same period.This growth is being driven by richer, ageing baby-boomers and increased discretionary income in the West, and by the growing middle classes in developing countries.
A watch could become a sly but powerful tool to enable greater independence and a richer aging process.
The difference, he said, is that in today's information-rich age, people around the world actually do know most of the facts in the case.
If the information-rich age has revealed anything, it is that those in power aren't wise, intelligent, foresighted and intelligent, but panicked, terrified, overwhelmed, regularly incompetent and often just plain baffled.
It is a function of our media-rich age that people are expected to turn fame, even notoriety, into cash.
The results reveal significant effects of wealth status (richer, richest), age (45 49), ecological zone (forest zone, savannah), religion (Pentecostal/charismatic, other Christian, African traditionalist/spiritualist, no religion), ethnicity (Ga/Dangme), education, marital status (married), and parity on subscription.
In an information-rich age, there can be a surprising lack of available open data such as spatial datasets on hazards, exposure, and vulnerability that are necessary to conduct risk assessment.
Soren Gordhamer works with individuals and groups on living with greater mindfulness and purpose in our technology-rich age.
