[JohnGalt]

Ahh, I would rather argue that 'Ages' are judged by who composes the ruling class not the techonology that precedes the era...The political difference is that during the Industrial Era the massive capital investments were in factories that could not be moved and thus were open to eploitation of those who worked them. In the Information Age, a computer and a cell phone are the 'tools' of the economy the way the factory and mass production were to the Industrial Age. The politics that defined the past 140 years are no longer relevant.

[Willie Green]

The political difference is that during the Industrial Era the massive capital investments were in factories that could not be moved and thus were open to eploitation of those who worked them. In the Information Age, a computer and a cell phone are the 'tools' of the economy the way the factory and mass production were to the Industrial Age.

It's a common, arrogant, egotistical and myopic misperception of Nintendo Generation Information Age control freaks that sophisticated manufacturing technology is readily transferable and operable by unskilled monkeys. Their judgement has been hopelessly crippled by Hollyweird enviro-nut extremist propaganda.