The Thinking Age ( ) Critical Thinking Becomes Explicit Social Conditions in the Thinking Age You are here The World - Today The World Love it or Leave it! The Thinking Age Characterized by Accelerating change, intensifying complexity, increasing danger Seen in Increasing amounts of information, quickening obsolescence, ever changing job market Causing Overspecialization, unforeseeable problems, worldwide interdependence, ever present health risks, growing wealth gap, environmental destruction Necessitating Mass education with a focus on critical thinking, a more equal distribution of wealth, a critical analysis and targeting of significant world problems Resulting in The formation of critical societies A possible reversion into another Dark Age Education Influential Thinkers in the Thinking Age