What Golden Age Is The World Going Through Right Now

The golden age is unique to each generation. People who lived in the 30s, 50s, or 70s talk about those eras as having been the best periods of their lives and perhaps even history.

There was a discussion on Reddit about what golden age users think we are living in now. Some of the comments could have been predicted, but others appeared to surprise everyone.

Exercise Information Is More Available

I think we are getting into the beginnings of one for exercise science, which is good and bad. As an amateur competitive cyclist, I’ve got more training science and tools available to me than ever before. I get a detailed analysis of my routine that simply wasn’t possible 20 years ago.

I’ve got more exercise science available via free software, blogs, and podcasts than professional cyclists with full-time coaches did in the mid-90s.

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The Information Era

Information is everywhere thanks to the internet. I believe that right now, you can give yourself an Ivy League education for free, provided you have internet and a computer.

You can discuss ideas with anyone from anywhere in the world. You can take advantage of niche markets and have groups of people all get together over obscure hobbies. What a time to be alive!

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False Information

This is the answer. Everyone’s focused on a handful of divisive political or other topics while the whole world is experiencing a revolution in the ability to learn about literally everything else.

Think of the number of kids getting a head start on math, physics, and other science education because they found they could google any question they had and go down a vast rabbit hole of knowledge. Did the advent of public libraries have even a fraction of this potential impact?

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Music Is Everywhere

You can listen to anything, anywhere, anytime. Plus, there are so many genres and unheard-of stuff out there that you could never have discovered in the past.

For listeners and fans, sure, but this is a dark age for musicians trying to make a living. It is a great time to be a consumer of recorded music. It’s also possibly the worst time for music creators since before recorded audio’s inception.

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