Hinduism and Buddhism have spread their influence world-wide, while local tribal religions and customs suffered crushing defeats. Primitive peoples world-wide, from Africa to the Americas to Asia, have fallen victim to conquerors and their empires. A few pockets of primal people still exist, such as the Ef Pygmies of Africa and some Indians in the Amazon, threatened always with extinction. Now at the end of the second digital millennium, the advancement of technology accelerates. Gutenberg's revolution of printing made it possible for the masses to get literature and information.
Data are now available globally in the internet.
But technology has also both made destruction cheap and civilization vulnerable. Little progress has been made in the practice of social technology, the technology of how a liberated society can live together in harmony. The knowledge is there. A universal ethic by which humanity can live in peace is known. The economics by which people can prosper with justice is known.