Eras of Material, Energy and Information Production
- 1 Lincoln University, United States
Abstract
This study identifies and discusses three types of production: production of aterial goods, energy, and information. The production timeframes with the reference to each production era are about 103, 102 and 101 years. The necessity of education and the associated level of stress in different production eras were analyzed by comparing a typical length of a human life, which is about 101 years, with the timeframes of the production eras and technological progress. It was shown that the era of information production has a very specific feature because unlike the eras of material and energy production, its information production era timeframe is comparable with a typical human lifespan. Finally, a question was posed about the next coming production era and the future of mankind.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jssp.2012.429.434
Copyright: © 2012 Sergey K. Aityan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Energy
- information
- production
- goods
- energy production
- material goods
- production eras
- significant effort
- technical revolution
- progress singularity