If the narrator's World War II newsreel-announcer voice doesn't convince you that these are the marvels of a new technological epoch, just look at all of that gleaming chrome and metallic-flake-painted metal.
As with any new technological epoch, questions around shape, ownership and regulation are starting to rise.
As globalization and the technological epoch continue to imbue major lifestyle changes, the fixed trajectory of our standard of living is slowly being replaced by one that's more flexible and itinerant.
Network partner diversity positively affects firm performance in epochs of technological turbulence, while the effect plays no significant role for firm survival in stable settings.
They were then urged to understand the five epochs of technological advancement through a timeline on the wall, each enacted in the actual production immediately afterwards outside.
Sections I and II of Genomics, Circuits, and Pathways for the Clinical Neuroscientist reviewed exceptional technological advances fueling the current epoch of discovery in genomics and neuroscience.
Moreover, science as a form of world-disclosure is profoundly historical, expressing and reflecting the zeitgeist of an epoch, co-evolving with technological developments and contributing to a particular style of thinking.
They may be of relevance to the dilemmas we face today in this epoch of globalization, religious wars, technological "enframing" (to use Heidegger's terminology), and environmental hazards.
But perhaps a more exact definition would be "the compressed century," for never has a period of 100 years seen so many world wars, so many scientific and technological advances, so many revolutions, so many epoch-making events piled almost one on top of the other.
In past epochs, periods of social and technological turmoil were followed by times of stability: for example, transitioning from agriculture to manufacturing.
The Anthropocene is the new epoch in which humanity, through its technological prowess and population of 7 billion, has become the major driver of changes of the Earth's physical systems, including the climate, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and biodiversity.
