People have been invoking it since at least 1900, and it has kept moving and coughing up new challenges all the time.
'Modern' is now ... at least until it transmutes into postmodern.
Octogenarians have been enmeshed in modernity all our lives, or trying to ride its rollercoaster ups and downs.
Somehow The Moderns needs to be integrated:
Roger Ebert review
I think more highly of The Moderns than he did. After all, Wallace Shawn...