Is this still the Space Age?
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age, measured from the launch of Sputnik. Google has a good celebratory logo in its honor:
Now that we're supposedly in the Information Age, does that mean the Space Age is over? I do spend most of my day on the internet -- but I also spend my day working out how to do science with Sputnik's great-great-grandchildren.
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