1.1 INTRODUCTION Firstly, Age is the period of time whereby technological events or successes help achieve the progress or decline of a civilization or the world. These ages of time are like the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age or like the Agrarian age and Modern Age where technology or societies depended on the method of technology they achieved during their periods.
Technology is closely associated with innovation, the transformation of ideas into new and products or processes. Innovation requires not only creative people and organization, but also the availability of technology, science and engineering talent.
Before delving into the argument, firstly what are the terms in the topic all about? The knowledge of the meaning of the agrarian age and the modern age is the fundamental requirement needed to understand which is much preferred.
Agrarian according to the Cambridge Dictionary is defined as the ‘term related to the land, especially farms, and its ownership, or (of a country) dependent on farming rather than industry’.
While it’s philosophical term agrarianism is a social and political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that the cultivation of plants, or farming leads to a fuller and happier life.
The term Modern Age is used by historians to loosely describe the period of time immediately following what is known as the Early Modern Times The Early Modern Times lasted from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century. Modern Times are the period from Enlightenment and the 18th century until today; the term "Late Modern" is not being used in English, albeit in other languages. The history of this time is the Modern history.
Modernity, based on Modernism, explores the changes of society due to the industrial age.
The modern age began with the advent of the industrial age or revolution. This is sometimes referred to as Period of Rapid Change.
A society can be derived as a system of organized communities
References: 1. Encyclopedia Britannica 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarianism 4. Schulze, Introduction to Modern History, Stuttgart 2002 5. Engr. Utong, U.J: Handout of Engineer in Society I. Pg 3-5