He steps to the podium and immediately begins to describe the next one thousand years in such fantastic terms that human values as we have known them will be obsolete. We will need new values, so he says, for the beings who inhabit the century of cyberspace and space travel. I would laugh at his presumption and nonsense. Beware of anyone who implies the passage of a thousand years requires the reinvention of the moral wheel.
True values remain the same, because the nature and destiny of man remain the same.
They await rediscovery, recovery, and reappropriation by succeeding generations. Even those generations who will inhabit cyberspace or search for life on Mars and beyond will need those values. Some have complained that traditional values didn't bring utopia, didn't put an end to prejudice and hatred, didn't return us to Eden. But then, nothing can restore the perfection we lost so long ago upon the earth. Value is a great wiggle word - you can utter it knowing everyone in the audience will hear what they want to hear.