An era does not just create technology. Technology creates the era.

 How can we describe the era being created by our current technologies?

 How about calling it something like "the era of meta-communication?" That is, not only does the current technological Zeitgeist center around enabling richer and more rapid communication methods, it also provides more and more powerful platforms and tools for aggregating, analyzing and annotating that communication in order to discover its deep patterns. As Arthur might put it, we may be seeing the emergence of a new communication domain, one that defines the style of our time.

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