Contradictory Nature Of Progress

 Let me say this: 

"It was the age of technological marvels, it was the age of environmental crisis, it was the epoch of globalization, it was the epoch of isolation, it was the dawn of the information age, it was the twilight of privacy, it was the season of unprecedented wealth, it was the season of extreme poverty, we had the power to connect with everyone, we had the alienation of disconnection, we were all striving for a better world, we were all struggling with the consequences of our actions—in short, the period was so much like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."