[TheDude]

Was formulating a reply and got to wondering what we'll call this gas-guzzling time we live in. In the past you had your Renaissance, your Enlightenment, your Romantic era. Also, on smaller scales, your Belle Epoch. Antebellemum times. Fin de Sicle. Roaring Twenties.
Well, my vote for an apt name for the 20th/early 21st centuries is: Happy Motoring.

[Ayame]

The Era of Plenty

or maybe

The Big Glut

[Wednesday]

It will really depend on who survives to write the story.

[oowolf]

"Petroindustrial Bubble" Coined by Heinberg, I think.

[Baldwin]

Gasoline Gluttons

Now, if academia dies off or is killed by mobs of urban poor (who academics champion for some reason), thus allowing obscenities to make their way into nomenclature, I think it will be called the: What The Fuck Were We Thinking era.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', '"')Petroindustrial Bubble" Coined by Heinberg, I think.

[Eli]

The Petroleum Age

The next one will be called the Apocalypse.

[jboogy]

The age of corpulence

the sedantary century

cornucopial era

these pretty much would apply to america, europe,australia ,canada and of course , the republic of Togo

[peaker_2005]

The Age of Excess, perhaps? The Motor Age?

The next one I'm not sure.

My view on THAT one differs:

The Age of Entropy
The Second Dark Age
The Age of War
Armageddon

[lateralus]

The Age of Resource Wars (aka the second 30 year war)

[eric_b]

Oil Age
The Bubble (pop)

[Bas]

the american era (as in the roman era)

[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Baldwin', 'G')asoline Gluttons

Now, if academia dies off or is killed by mobs of urban poor (who academics champion for some reason), thus allowing obscenities to make their way into nomenclature, I think it will be called the: What The Fuck Were We Thinking era.

[lateralus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', 't')he american era (as in the roman era)

[I_Like_Plants]

Interesting ..... since "American" can mean anywhere from just about pole to pole in the Americas, maybe they'll have to come up with some more precise name......

[pea-jay]

This era as what lead up to today?
* Petro-Americana

our future?
* The Great Unraveling

[TheDude]

Ah, keep 'em coming, and don't forget those Portentous Captilizations.

"Petro-Americana," that sounds nice, like a twist on Pax Americana which I believe is a book title already.

I wonder if anyone will remember the brave souls at peakoil.com who saw the troubles ahead, the cliff we were going over, while the rest of civilization agonized over things like Wardrobe Malfunctions. And they'll wonder, yes, What The Fuck Were They Thinking? And in the case of some of our members, What The Fuck Were They Talking About?