The Golden Age is often mocked but refuses to die. Few people of any maturity do not feel the past was somehow better, even when considering such things as the primitive level of medicine. Is this desire for a past Golden Age just a longing for childhood or is there something more to our looking back with some regret. When we talk of the Golden Age of Rome, Athens or Islam, we are not fantasizing, so what if there was something more substantial about the Wests reminiscing, than a dream of childhood? What makes for a Golden Age and can we start to dream of a future Golden Age, rather than one viewed in hindsight.