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Defining the Age

Ages, eras and wars will always be defined (1) _______ they are over, or at least well after they (2) _______ started. (3) _______ the year 1914, for example, no one said: ‘Tomorrow I’m going (4) _______ go and fight in the First World War.’ Why not? Because it wasn’t generally called the First World War until the Second World War had started. Similarly, no one ever said: ‘Next year (5) _______ be the start of the Industrial Revolution.’ The era now known as the Industrial Revolution only started being called that once it was well under way.

(6) _______ the time we are old, we will all (7) _______ experienced enormous technological advances. We might even (8) _______ walking round with computer chips implanted in our bodies, or perhaps computer chip technology will have (9) _______ replaced by even more advanced technology. There’s talk (10) _______ the moment that human skin itself might make an excellent electronic circuit board. We can all make predictions, but nobody knows for sure. And nobody knows what the era we will live in (11) _______ the near future will be called by future historians. If we already live in the Computer Age or the Information Age as some people suggest, the present-day era (12) _______ be referred to by future historians, then who knows what era we’re just (13) _______ the beginning of right now?

Ages, eras and wars will always be defined (1) _______ they are over,