Today, man knows more about his dangerous inclinations than he knew a hundred years ago, and in another hundred years his knowledge will be even more complete. Then he will be able to benefit from it. The acceleration of scientific and technological development already became so clear that you don't have to be a specialist to recognize it. I think that the changeability of the living conditions due to this development are one of the reasons that influence negatively the formation of homeostatic systems of customs and manners in the modern world. To the above mentioned acceleration of knowledge growth and the development of new technologies we owe, of course, the chance of serious occupation with our main topic.
Nobody can question the fact that the changes are fast and immense.
Everyone who described the year 2000 as being totally similar to our present would immediately look ridiculous. As a true humanist he held that changes induced by the technoevolution are important neither to the functioning of societies, nor for the individual psyche. Therefore, the avalanche-like speed of changes, initiating discussions similar to this, at the same time reduces the chance to make extensive predictions. I cannot blame the popularizers since even their masters are not free from sin. Even I found a book by the Austrian physicist Thirring, edited in 1946, which first described the theory of the hydrogen bomb to the general public.