The possibilities of sharing and having access to new things is good and bad. Computers and telecommunications have become available to larger parts of the population and provide a means of interaction and interchange. But at the same time, material values instead of spiritual ones tend to prevail. Individualism is becoming more important than solidarity and cooperation. The war industry and the production of weapons is still the largest industry in the world.
Violence is still very much a part of life.
The evolutionary process goes both ways, progressing in some and getting weird and dangerous in others. It is interesting how tropicalia and xenophobia can both exist so healthily in the same world. We're becoming global in one sense, and at the same time, clashes between languages, between countries, between different cultures are intensifying. Europe has been trying to keep Africans and Asians from coming in. Elsewhere, you have proliferation of laws against foreigners.