Our view of ourselves, of the natural world, of our families, our work, our mental and emotional furniture, our hopes for this life, all have undergone a radical change. The elements and instruments of this change are well known. Developments in transportation, in information and communication technologies, in entertainment media, and in manufacturing have so changed our way of being that a person who lived a hundred years ago was closer both in modes of consciousness and in the daily rhythms of life to the time of Christ than to our own. Technological development has also brought about an
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