First some preliminaries. The latter should have happened in 1984. We are obviously free of Big Brother-type control. As for our homes, we are building essentially as we did for thousands of years.
Outside things seem to look the same.
Inside there is a beehive of technology. The same parallel exists between our physical beings and our mental adventures into science, religion, and politics. Instead, we have gone for the practical, the expedient, and gotten the biggest bang for our buck relying on the machine for everything, the human hand for nearly nothing. In our seemingly generic quest for the practical and the accumulation of things, we have lost our appreciation of the aesthetic, the sublime. Our schools and universities have cut out completely from their more technically oriented curricula the study of the arts, especially the fine arts.