Victorians and Tudors - What are we called then?

[dodamaksoud]

This question was proposed to me by my youngest sister of 8 years and I was confuzzled by the question. What is our age called, or does have something to do with the person reigning at the time? Thanks in advance

[yassa]

Confused,,, that makes two of us...

[tatters]

Are we not the silicon age?

[trakcab]

Elizabethan I would say after the queen the same as under Victoria it was the Victorian age

[tatters]

We had the stone, bronze, iron ............ etc etc........ Industrial age, the age is named after the main discovery of that era, using reigning monachs only works for England in this case.

[gary baldy]

According to The Buggles we are living in The Plastic Age.

[jno]

age of electronics, quite likely. But a historian of England might refer to the second Elizabethan age (to Scots she is the first Elizabeth).

[jno]

a previous discussion:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/History_and_Myt hs/Question230789.html

[noxlumos]

I think we should be Betties!

[Octavius]

2nd Elizabethan

[Tymless]

The Age of Aquarius...we're running out of water...

[Mograt]

This question is often asked (I'm a history teacher!)
The answer is we are living in the modern era. Not very exciting, I know, but that is the correct term.

[emailia]

how are we running out of water?

[jno]

emailia, I think rivers are drying up - not necessarily from global warming, more that upstream people are taking more and more for irrigation and other purposes, leaving downstreamers with dry creeks. That's why they predict 'water wars' in the future. Meanwhile, out at sea, the levels rise and the ice melts...