We are all in the midst of a new geological age, experts say This age, dubbed the Meghalayan, began years ago when what was probably a planetwide drought struck Earth, according to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)

Digital logic as we know it was the brain-child of George Boole in the mid 19th century

Claude Shannon

Ages

• Premechanical The premechanical age is the earliest age of information technology
• Mechanical The mechanical age is when we first start to see connections between our current technology and its ancestors
• Electromechanical
• Electronic

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Mike Wadhera is the founder of Teleport Twenty-five years after the introduction of the World Wide Web, the Information Age is coming to an end Thanks to mobile screens and Internet everywhere, we’re now entering what I call the “Experience Age”

The rise of information and communication technologies (ICT) – that is, computers, software, telecommunications and the internet – and the large impact that these new technologies are having on the way that society functions, have prompted many to claim that we have entered a new era, often referred to as the ‘Third

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Living in the Information Technology Era was written specifically for K-12 graduates who are transitioning from senior high school to higher education It is one of the 3-unit elective courses offered for general education under the Mathematics, Science, and Technology domain

The period is the basic unit of geological time in which a single type of rock system is formed Two or more periods comprise a geological Era Two or more Eras form an Eon, the largest division of geologic time

An era in geology is a time of several hundred million years It describes a long series of rock strata which geologists decide should be given a name An example is the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs lived on the Earth An era is made up of periods, and several eras make up an eon

Hadean Eon

Precambrian, period of time extending from about 46 billion years ago (the point at which Earth began to form) to the beginning of the Cambrian Period, 541 million years ago

The Proterozoic is the longest eon of the Earth’s geologic time scale and it is subdivided into three geologic eras (from oldest to youngest): the Paleoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic, and Neoproterozoic

North America nearly rifted through what is now its midsection about 11 billion years ago The rocks that formed at this time are best seen around Lake Superior This rifting appears to have been stopped by the counteracting force of a continental collision on what is now the east coast of the continent

During the Proterozoic, the atmosphere and oceans changed significantly Proterozoic rocks contain many definite traces of primitive life-forms—the fossil remains of bacteria and blue-green algae, as well as of the first oxygen-dependent animals, the Ediacara fauna

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Geologists divide the time between Precambrian and the present into three long units called eras (Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic) At the end of each era a major mass extinction occurred, many kinds of organisms died out, although there were other extinctions going on during each period of geologic time

List of geological eras in Earth’s history

The book divides the timeline of the universe into five eras: the primordial Era, the Stelliferous Era, the Degenerate Era, the Black Hole Era and the Dark Era In addition to explaining current cosmological theory, the authors speculate on what kinds of life might exist in future eras of the universe