Officially, the current epoch is called the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age.

What era is 2021 right now?

The current year by the Gregorian calendar, AD 2021, is 12021 HE in the Holocene calendar.

What age is humanity in?

While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s.