"What Is Currently In Its 'Golden Age', But Not Enough People Know About It?" (40 Answers)

Documentaries. So many good ones, available through so many online outlets.

The Wikipedia.

I can spend 20 minutes reading a day and gain an in-depth knowledge of global studies, biology, philosophy, religion, language, chemistry, and even physics.

It is nuts and honestly the world would be a better place if more people would check s**t out on there instead of FB.

Anti-censorship movement in the United States. There's a full on cultural war going in American libraries and the library workers and their community advocates are fighting hard.

Cooking! I'm 30 now and it's so easy to find amazing recipes, good cooking supplies, and with so much information I can save money on food in so many ways. Literally youtube is teaching me to make so many great things.

Children not dying of preventable diseases. Less children died in raw numbers in 2023 then in 1924 despite the massive population increase. .

Astronomy is currently experiencing a golden age. It has changed radically in the last 30ish years. Think on this, if you are 30 + years old, you were born into a world that wasn't sure if planetary systems were rare or common. We now know that nearly all stars are likely to have planets. We know of 5000+ exoplanets. Mars was not considered a place we could find signs of life by most. The generation of spacecraft exploring Mars since the year 2000 changed that. Now some argue that discovering signs of past life on Mars is a matter of when, not if. We found multiple worlds in our solar system with liquid water oceans. This is just scratching the surface. New technologies like JWST promise to keep the momentum for the foreseeable future.

Knitting. First, we're in the golden age of yarns. There are hundreds of indie dyers putting amazing colors on a truly mind-boggling range of yarn bases (both fiber content and weight). Even "cheap" yarn is better quality, and comes in a wider range of colors and bases, than ever before. There's an abundance of wool yarn soft enough to wear next to your skin (although you can get scratchy yarn if that's your jam).

Then there are the patterns. Thousands of them, many of them free online. Think of what you want to make, and there's a pattern out there.

Tools, too. How do you like your needles - wood, bamboo, steel, aluminum, plastic, casein? Circular with 15 sizes of interchangeable tips, straight, long short? They're out there.

If you're a knitting nerd, it's a great time to be alive.

Dietary options. No matter what issue you have, there's a pantry full of food that will meet that restriction AND taste good.

Compare a Keto diet from 1999 to now. It's unreal.

Home TVs.

The sort of hardware you can get for even $300 is absolutely absurd compared to what the 1980s through 2000s knew. .

Paleontology! So much tech bringing new stuff to light.

AUDIO BOOKS holy s**t they are amazing now. And there are so many niche books getting audio versions as well.

Well, it's already over now but most content on the internet being made by humans. I'll really miss the internet from 2000 to +/- 2020.

Board games have been having a great run for the past 10 years, tons of amazing games coming out every year.

Photography.

Everyone has a camera and video recorder with them at all times. Photography has never been as accessible as it is now.

Unfortunately, scams. Technology has made it easy and cheap to pull off. People are lonelier and mental health concerns sometimes make people more vulnerable to these scams. And finally the archaic law enforcement structure isn’t set up to go after them so there’s virtually no punishment for doing it.

Watch out, fam.

Information. Never before have we had such a vast amount of information freely available to us, and so easy aswell. We just need to make sure we keep it that way.

Cooking, the availability of ingredients from around the world, the body of knowledge is expanding, more people are baking their own bread, making yogurt, processing their own foods.

Batteries. From needing a plethora C and D batteries or a power adapter for nearly anything that couldn't fit in your pocket (which needed several AA/AAAs too) no more than 20 years ago, to earbuds that last days with batteries the size of a Tic Tac or even cars that can go hundreds of miles on battery power alone. Honestly don't think it's given enough credit how far we've come in the past 20 years with energy storage.

Self directed learning. There is nothing I can't find a tutorial for these days. And on top of that I'm finding AI to be an excellent compliment as a fairly decent tutor.

Glass. glass has become so universally used in products beyond just a barrier to the world. its use in electronics, and other applications, have truly advanced a lot and probably have a lot more room to grow too.