The Four Eras Chart Forced By Professor Soha

The post-modern era that we are living in right now is different than the modern era discussed in class. Postmodernism is the most fast pace and growing eras due to the communication and technology created. With the transformation from modern era communication to postmodern era being so extended the younger generations are not realizing how it has changed. In the chart forced by Professor Soha, he explains how in the postmodern era generations are alienated from others. Due to such drastic adjustments the gap between generations are so large. Communication between individuals have become so depended on technology that interacting without technology sometimes is a fear of peoples. With the advancement of IPhones, Apple products, television,

Religion in the oral, traditional and the beginning of the modern era was a practice that was worshiped. With not much authority and hierarchy in the past eras, religion was looked at as a code of law or rules to follow. As we discussed in class religious figures were the authority in the earlier eras and with the postmodern era emergence religion is less important than it use to be. As the Internet was formed more ideas were created and more thoughts were produced within individuals. Professor Soha describes in his four eras chart, because of the new ideas and thoughts formed, due to the Internet, this creates an information overload. The postmodern era allows each individual to have their own point of view and to have open opinions about many different topics. This is what creates an information overload on the Internet. In McLuhan’s book The Medium is the Massage, he explains how when new information is released it is not considered “new” information anymore because of how rapidly another set of new information is created. The term “expert” is a

The norm was to graduate college, receive and degree, get one job, and maybe raise a family. In the postmodern era, under certain circumstances, each individual has the ability and the choice to go back to school, learn more, and even receive a second degree that will allow them to get a better occupation. Another aspect of education and occupations in the modern versus postmodern era is “networks.” The phrase “it’s not what you know it’s who you know” revolves from postmodernism. Networking is one of the most important parts of how to get a job after someone graduates. In the modern era the authority and hierarchy were the “experts” and those people were the focal point of social emergence. The postmodernism form of hierarchy is the Internet and online. Networking and communication with the Internet and technology is at a much faster pace than it used to be. The network is the new