modern era

English Thesaurus

1. the present or recent times (noun.time)

hypernym	:	epoch, era,
definition	:	a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event (noun.time)

hyponym	:	information age,
definition	:	a period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks (noun.time)