Might we finally be approaching the end of an age of innocence now?
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The invention of repeating firearms, which could be quickly reloaded and refired, largely brought an end to the age of the sword.
More important, it highlights an unappreciated implication of a solar-powered economy: The end of the oil age will not necessarily bring an end to the ugly geopolitics, resource wars and national rivalries that oil created.
These include the end of the effective compulsion to buy an annuity by the age of 75.
His death last month at the age of 98 has been called the end of an era.
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Last night, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, quote, the age of restraint has come to an end.
But the golden age of cyberactivism may be coming to an end.
Those union-bashers who think that putting an end to collective bargaining will herald a golden age of merit rewards for the best workers, should think again.
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There my own Golden Age of Science Fiction came, in some sense, to an end, the othernesses of my adolescence joining up with the wider tributary of literature, the mother of all otherness.
In the new age of engagement, many things of the past will come to an apocalyptic end, but the creative destruction that will drive it will push us to go back to being creators as much as consumers.
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In the end, I think it is fair to say that in the age of smarter digi marketing, there remains an art and desire to create iconoclastic brand heat in places like Times Square.
Last but not least, the age of analyst as master-of-the-universe seems to have come to an end.
Others have warmed to the Greens agenda: its demand for the withdrawal of Australian troops from Afghanistan, its opposition to the monarchy, an end to mandatory detention for asylum seekers, a ban on junk food advertising and a lowering of the voting age to 16.
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