Just the facts: the Cold War was a historic period that started after World War II.

冷战是从二战后开始的一个历史时期。

And the word Jomon has come to be used not just for the objects, but for the people that made them, and even the whole historic period in which they were lived.

现在绳纹一词，已经不仅仅是这些物品的名称，那时代的人类，及他们生活的整个历史时期都被称之为绳纹。

Above all, it feels like we're entering an historic period right now where we as a world are going to define a technology that will be so important for our society going forward.

关键是感觉我们即将进入一个历史性时期，全球各地的人们将要共同努力定义一项技术，而它对于我们社会未来的走向至关重要。