Virtually everything that everyone has ever known is now available to anyone at the click of a mouse. I was sitting on a plane with a man flying from Atlanta to Miami. He was in the microchip business, and I commented to him on my watch which stores 100 phone numbers. This is technological change. These are the psychic diseases of the 20 th century.
Life is faster today than it has ever been.
Even human reproduction is being challenged by the advent of test-tube babies and genetic engineering. Understandings of marriage, family life, sex, morals, ethics, are all changing . Moreover, films, video, TV and the Internet mean that children no longer have childhoods. And very few are allowed any innocence, because all are introduced very early to the adult world of violence, immorality, sexual looseness and often family chaos. It remains very confusing for both young and old to find all the old understandings of family life, lifelong marital commitment, and virginity till marriage, all called so fully in question in these changing times.