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Do you mean the Dark Age Of Technology, or the Age Of Strife? If the former, then it’s generally implied to have been something in the style of Golden Age SF, when the tech that is rare or unique in M41 was commonplace. And could fly. And was artificially intelligent. GW’s influences are rooted further in the past, but I’d picture something reminiscent of Iain M Banks’ The Culture.

The Age Of Strife is your Jack Vance/Gene Wolfe Dying Earth-style setting with weird archaeotech coexisting with pre-industrial level societies (and daemons lurking in the shadows). Or at least that’s how I’ve always pictured it, based on the few crumbs of information GW have provided.