"Sorting out what was gained and what was lost during the modern transformation has been a persistent and highly controversial thread of human thought over the past several centuries."
Indeed so. It's often remarked that "hindsight is 20/20." That said, I'm wondering what the societies of the future will have to say about us once we've made it into the history books. While the Modern Era has brought about numerous technological innovations, it has at the same time ushered in some of the most desctructive manmade forces as well. Among them, nuclear and biological weapons and the advent of the military industrial complex. Taken together, these features of modern life have introduced a danger that previous generations have never had to worry about - aside from the occasional pandemic. In recent years however (the last 70 or so), we have developed the kind of technology that can bring about the kind of mass die-off that bubonic plague caused, overnight. Am I the only one that finds this troubling?
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