Originally referring to a type of mid 20th century art (i.e. Andy Warhol), the term "postmodern" is now used to describe the era beginning around the 1980s and continuing into the present.

The term, arguably an oxymoron, implies that technology and sociology is now so advanced it is beyond being modern, as if we're living in the "future" we once imagined in science fiction, or alternatively, live in a high tech society that is socially more primitive than the times before.

Postmodernity (also spelled post-modernity or the pejorative postmodern condition) is generally used to describe the economic and/or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century, replaced by post-modernity, while others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by Postmodernity and into the present.