We live in a Stone Age?

     O.K., according to most people ... we live in the Digital / Information age.
Fair enough! As far as it goes.
     But, what does this really mean? Basically, it boils down to the fact that our main product is digital information. In reality, this suggests that what we really produce IS ...... nothing substantial.
     Does this make a difference? Well, yes it does.
     How does one define a Stone Age? A general definition would be a civilisation which does not really build anything but uses 'found' items, like stones, with small modifications to create a 'tool'.

     Does this sound familiar? No? When was the last time you 'made' anything? Do you have the skills to create 'anything' from scratch? (In this situation ... I mean 'really' from scratch ... not going to the shop and buying the ingredients/materials.)
     Do you know ANYONE who can walk into the bush and come back with any sort of finished article?
     Do you know anyone who can create, and operate, a forge to keep an area at 'iron age' standards?

     Modern Man only uses the TOOLS that he can 'find' in his immediate environment to 'create' things. Sometimes this tool may be a power drill, chain saw, mobile phone, computer, or what-have-you, but they are still just 'stones' that have been 'found.' Someone else has converted these 'stones' into useful tools AND, to make it worse, once you take away the power for them ... they revert to being JUST stones again.

     When this thing breaks ... we are back to the Stone Age, folks. Possibly to the Iron Age in some, localised, pockets but the general populace will be doing nothing but using tools / items that they have found. Once those are gone ... that's when the REAL trouble begins.