If we can date the end of the previous era, what the historian Eric Hobsbawm called the “Age of Extremes,” to the end of the Cold War in 1991, and we can date the start of the Information Era to the first popular web browser in 1994, what should we make of those years in between? They are boundary years, comparable to what anthropologists call a liminal state. They were a period when the old rules were gone, but before the new order was formed.
