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 attack, often unwittingly, on human nature itself. Long-standing assumptions about what it means to be human are under siege.
